Hospital Quality Improvement Contractors (HQIC) Initiative
Colorado Hospital Association is proud to partner with Cynosure Health for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) fourth installment of quality and patient safety learning collaboratives, the Hospital Quality Improvement Contractors (HQIC) initiative. This new four-year initiative has a focused approach to improvement for a targeted group of rural and critical access hospitals. CHA joins key participants, including:
- Cynosure Health, a non-profit organization that specializes in providing hands-on quality improvement coaching and training. Cynosure Health has worked with more than 700 Critical Access Hospitals nationwide and manages the Medicare Beneficiary Quality Improvement Project (MBQIP) efforts for six states.
- IMPAQ International, a health policy research firm that will create individualized data solutions for small and rural HQIC hospitals. IMPAQ served as the National Content Developer (NCD) under HIIN and now serves as the Quality Payment Program Small, Underserved, Rural Support (QPP SURS) central support contractor.
- PFCC Partners, a patient and family engagement organization that is deeply committed to shared learning, including bringing patients and families to the design process to address health equity and disparities.
Animas Surgical Hospital
Aspen Valley Hospital
Colorado Canyons Hospital & Medical Center – Family Health West
Delta Health
Grand River Hospital District
Gunnison Valley Health
Haxtun Health
Heart of the Rockies Regional Medical Center
Keefe Memorial Health Service District
Kit Carson County Health Service District
Lincoln Health
Melissa Memorial Hospital
Montrose Memorial Hospital
Mt. San Rafael Hospital
Pioneers Medical Center
Rio Grande Hospital
San Luis Valley Health Conejos County Hospital
San Luis Valley Health Regional Medical Center
Sedgwick County Health Center
Southwest Health System
Spanish Peaks Regional Health Center
UCHealth Pikes Peak Regional Hospital
UCHealth Yampa Valley Medical Center
Vail Health
Valley View Hospital
Weisbrod Memorial County Hospital (Kiowa County District Hospital
Yuma District Hospital
Together we can improve further, faster.
Major efforts of HQIC include:
- Improved behavioral health outcomes, with a focus on decreased opioid use
- Increase patient safety with a focus on reduction of harm
- Increase the quality of care transitions with a focus on high utilizers in an effort to improve overall utilization
- Support hospitals responding to public health emergencies, including COVID-19
Benefits of CHA Partnership with Cynosure HQIC:
- CLIC – Customized and democratized education, technical assistance and coaching includes access to Cynosure’s on-demand virtual learning platform
- Tools and resources to enable hospitals to excel, including discovery tools which quickly and easily help identify improvement priorities
- Affinity groups for emerging topics such as COVID-19 and or other areas of interest
- Tailored resources to engage, train and build capacity and competency for staff at all levels
- Meaningful data reports demonstrating performance over time with applicable benchmarks
- Subject matter experts for all topics