For Healthcare Professionals:
Qualis Health has a long and successful history of collaborating with local healthcare providers and is pleased to continue this tradition in our current Medicare projects.
Under Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization contract, the following quality improvement, reporting, and medical review services are provided at no charge to Idaho and Washington healthcare providers:
| Care Setting | Quality Improvement | Reporting | Review | ||
| All Settings of Care | |||||
| Sharing knowledge about improvement fundamentals | Responding to Medicare beneficiary appeals | ||||
| Publicizing local success stories | Responding to Medicare beneficiary complaints | ||||
| Maintaining accurate contact lists for appeals-related communication | |||||
| Hospitals | |||||
| Coordinating projects to improve patient safety:
| Assisting hospitals to meet the requirements of nationwide data-collection initiatives | Investigating potential EMTALA violations | |||
| Maintaining accurate hospital contact lists for reporting-related communication | Authorizing the use of an assistant at Medicare beneficiaries' cataract-related procedures | ||||
| Helping promote an organizational safety culture, including administering and acting upon the AHRQ Patient Safety Survey | |||||
| Supporting the 5 Million Lives campaign | |||||
| Nursing Homes | |||||
| Coordinating projects to improve resident safety:
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| Helping promote organizational culture change, including administering and acting upon the AHRQ Patient Safety Survey | |||||
| Supporting the Advancing Excellence campaign | |||||
| Physician Offices | |||||
| Using EMRs to effectively manage preventive care | Promoting the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). See the official website, or sign up for periodic e-mail updates from us. | Authorizing the use of an assistant at Medicare beneficiaries' cataract-related procedures | |||
| Cross-Setting Initiatives | |||||
| Collaborating with the Whatcom County, WA community to address the safety of care transitions | |||||
| Supporting drug safety initiatives | |||||
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Article Published in Compliance Today |
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The August 2008 edition of the Health Care Compliance Association's (HCCA) Compliance Today includes an article written by Qualis Health staff Leslie J. Barnette, MD, Margaret Tran, RHIA and Sandra Salinas, RHIT, CPHQ. The article, "Short-stay admissions: Preventing billing errors," describes a special study we conducted with Idaho and Washington hospitals. |
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Contact |
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For more information about Qualis Health's Medicare work overall, please contact: Marci Weis, RN, MPH, CCM, CPUM |
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