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Organizational Culture Links/Partners
The Home Health Quality Initiative Advisory Group provides a forum for discussion and information exchange among representatives of provider organizations and associations, as well as others serving the home health population. The group also offers guidance and feedback regarding Masspro’s HHQI activities, education, and communication strategies, and supports ongoing relationships between Masspro and the home health provider community. Below is a list of group members.
Partners
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administer the Medicare program and work with each state to administer its Medicaid program, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program, and health insurance portability standards. CMS also oversees the Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) program, contracting with QIOs (like MassPRO) to ensure that care paid by the Medicare program is reasonable and medically necessary, meets professionally recognized standards of health care, and is provided in the most economical setting.
Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts
The Home Care Alliance of Massachusetts is a statewide, not-for-profit organization dedicated to supporting and promoting high-quality, cost-effective home care as a therapeutic, compassionate, and patient-centered care choice. The Alliance’s 100+ member agencies care for more than 100,000 Massachusetts residents annually.
Massachusetts Department of Public Health- Division of Health Care Quality
The Division of Health Care Quality (DHCQ) is mandated by state and federal statutes to license and certify approximately 6,000 health facilities to assure the delivery of quality health care services. Facilities include hospitals, nursing homes, rest homes, chronic renal dialysis units, home health agencies, hospices, ambulatory surgical centers, clinical laboratories, blood banks, clinics, rehabilitative services, and state schools.
Quaboag Valley VNA & Hospice
Quaboag Valley Visiting Nurse Association (VNA) and Hospice provides home health care services for individuals requiring skilled nursing care, rehabilitation therapy, or hospice services in a home setting. Working with each patient’s physician, VNA staff members collaborate with the patient and family in establishing a plan of care and treatment goals.
Tender Loving Care® Health Care Services
Tender Loving Care® Health Care Services is a national provider of home health care services with branch locations coast-to-coast. An interdisciplinary team of caregivers, led by nurses and therapists, shares one common goal: to minimize or prevent re-hospitalization, and to help each patient achieve the maximum level of health and independence in a timely manner.
Visiting Nurse Association of Boston
The Visiting Nurse Association of Boston is a non-profit, community-based, home health care agency, committed to providing residents of Greater Boston and surrounding communities with care that will maximize their health, independence, and quality of life. It is one of the largest visiting nurse associations in the northeast, and provides nursing, rehabilitation, and home health aide services to nearly 15,000 patients each year.
Visiting Nurse Associations of New England
The Visiting Nurse Associations of New England (VNANE) is a membership association and the largest network of home health care providers in the northeast. Member associations are certified by Medicare and Medicaid, and most are accredited by the Joint Commission on Accreditation of Health Care Organizations or the Community Health Accreditation Program.
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