Health Services Advisory Group a
Medicare quality Innovation Network
Quality Improvement Organization or
QIN-QIO provides no cost quality
improvement assistance to home health
agencies. HSAG partners with the Arizona
Association for Home Care or AAHC to
help home health agencies maximize the use
of the home health quality improvement
campaigns resources. It's a great
relationship you know when you're in
partnership with the QIO for your state
you have access to evidence-based
practices and quality initiatives and
we've been very fortunate to work with
Health Services Advisory Group in this capacity
so Health Services Advisory Group
offers us a variety of educational
opportunities to learn about how we can
better our processes within an
organization, as well as educational
tools that we can take out to our
patients in the community to help them
improve the quality of their life.
You know we have always liked the best
practice intervention packages, it
keeps us from reinventing the wheel
we've attended webinars, live sessions
through our home care organization we've
attended speaker groups and we've
participated in the Cardioland
initiative for cardiovascular care we
appreciate the data reports that we
received from HSAG and our benchmarking
capabilities with peers. HSAG runs home
health agency specific 30-day
readmission reports which compare the
agency's rates with state and national
numbers. Jill Lanning found the reports
helpful in her home health agencies
quality improvement efforts. So looking
at the days of the week that really has
helped me with my agency change some of
the practices, because we found that
patients were going back to the hospital
Sundays and Mondays so we beefed up our
weekend stuff to see and we really did
see a change with that so you know I
found that really valuable. HSAG's work
is complemented by AAHC whose mission is,
To advance quality home care as an
integral component of the healthcare
delivery system through leadership,
education, advocacy and partnerships with
affiliated organizations. I've been in
the association as an individual member
as well as part of our organization for
many years and it has just progressed
over time and evolving on to becoming a
part of a family, if you will, of peer
groups in the state to help one another
collaborate with working on initiatives
that is affecting all of us to better
their care that we're providing to our
patients out in the community setting.
I think a lot of our members speak to that
collaboration because when you're able
to be together in an environment and
learn about how to deliver that best
care it really, the competition part of
it falls away.
It's the opportunity to connect with our
peers from other home health agencies.
You know if you haven't joined the home
health quality initiative yet you're
really missing out there is so much
information and resources and tools out
there that are available for free and
this information helps you do a better
job in your agency and its really how do
we not only prevent readmissions, but
really how do we help people take better
care of themselves,
how do they get access to the healthcare
resources that they need and how do they
stay healthy and not access the
system so much that we can take the
limited resource that we have and
benefit more people at a lower cost.
Let HSAG help you take care of your
patients
contact us today!