 | Quality Innovation Network – Quality Improvement Organization |
The Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) program helps the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) implement key elements of the Department of Health and Human Services’ National Quality Strategy and federal health reform efforts.
Superior Health Quality Alliance (Superior Health) currently serves as the QIN-QIO for Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. As part of this effort, we are working with beneficiaries, communities, nursing homes, hospitals and clinicians to advance the five aims set forth by CMS:
- Improve nursing home quality focusing on reducing unnecessary resident harm, reducing hospitalizations and increasing a facility’s Five Star Quality Rating.
- Increase quality of care transitions through engagement of community coalitions to reduce unnecessary emergency department visits and increase medication safety.
- Increase chronic disease prevention and self-care for those living with cardiovascular disease, diabetes and chronic kidney disease.
- Increase patient safety including reducing adverse drug events and healthcare-related infections.
- Improve behavioral health and opioid misuse through prevention and access to health services.
Join our current initiatives:
Community Coalitions for Improving Care
Nursing Home Quality Improvement Collaborative
Our Track Record of Success: Medicare Quality Improvement Initiatives 2014 – 2019
QIO News
Celebrating Five Years of QIO Program Success
July 15, 2019
As the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) Program 11th Scope of Work (SoW) comes to an end, leaders at the Quality Improvement and Innovation Group (QIIG) within the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Clinical Standards and Quality (CCSQ) are celebrating the last ...
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These QIN-QIOs Tackled Malnutrition to Improve Beneficiary Wellness
July 9, 2019
Health disparities are the differences in health outcomes that are closely linked to social, economic and environmental disadvantages. Race and ethnicity, disability status, rural residency, socioeconomic status and other characteristics can create disparities, including malnutrition that have far-r...
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Quality of Life Q&A with Meagan Khau, CMS Office of Minority Health
July 9, 2019
As director of the Data and Policy Analytics Group (DPAG) at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Office of Minority Health (OMH), Meagan Khau helps lead research that informs policies to reduce health disparities and improve quality of care in older adults and ...
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QIOs in Action: Focusing on Populations with the Greatest Need
July 9, 2019
Health care quality improvement is not just about improving health; it is about improving health in a way that fosters equitable opportunities for and access to care for all members of the population regardless of geography, race, ethnicity, income or other socioeconomic differences. Aggregated heal...
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Superior Health members MPRO, MetaStar and Stratis Health organized as Lake Superior Quality Innovation Network work in partnership with patients, providers, and practitioners across organizations and care settings to achieve national quality goals. Lake Superior QIN serves:
- 3 states: Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin
- Nearly 2,500 health care organizations
- More than four million Medicare beneficiaries
See the breadth of our impact in this Lake Superior QIN report, Transforming Health Care Delivery, and the corresponding video.
