Partners
Boston Public Health Commission
The Boston Public Health Commission is the nation’s first health department and is committed to reducing health care disparities for all populations. The REACH (Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health) Coalition is lead by and empowers African-American seniors to advocate for their health care, with specific focuses on disease self-management, exercise, and healthy nutrition.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the administrator of the Medicare program and works 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 for by the Medicare program is reasonably and medically necessary, meets professionally recognized standards of health care, and is provided in the most economical setting.
ESRD Network of New England
The ESRD Network of New England is a non-profit corporation, which serves as the Medicare contractor for the New England states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont. The Network facilitates the improvement of health care and quality of life for individuals who have chronic renal insufficiency and those treated with dialysis or transplantation.
Fistula First
Through the Fistula First National Vascular Access Improvement Initiative, CMS, the ESRD Networks, Quality Improvement Organizations, the renal community, and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) will work together to increase the likelihood that every eligible patient will receive the most optimal form of vascular access for that patient (in the majority of cases an arterial venous fistula, or AVF), and that vascular access complications will be avoided through appropriate monitoring and intervention.
Maine Health Information Center
The Maine Health Information Center provides assistance to data providing and data using organizations in the collection, merger, analysis, and dissemination of healthcare status, utilization, cost, and resource data. The MHIC supports and promotes the use of high quality healthcare data as the basis for decisions in healthcare policy and management, while guaranteeing to patients and practitioners and to providers and users of health data that confidentiality of patient specific data provided to the MHIC shall be preserved.
Massachusetts Department of Public Health- Diabetes Prevention and Control Program
The Massachusetts Diabetes Prevention and Control Program (DPCP) supports and implements many initiatives to decrease the burden of diabetes in Massachusetts. Efforts include coordination of the Diabetes Surveillance System, development of the Massachusetts Guidelines for Adult Diabetes Care, and various education and quality improvement programs.
Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers
The Massachusetts League of Community Health Centers is the membership association for the state’s 53 community health center (CHC) organizations. It works to strengthen the network of these CHCs by providing technical assistance and addressing issues that range from managed care readiness to health policy changes to capital development projects.
Links
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention- Office of Minority Health
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is the administrator of the Medicare program and works 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 for by the Medicare program is reasonably and medically necessary, meets professionally recognized standards of health care, and is provided in the most economical setting.
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services – Medicare Care Management Performance Demonstration
This 3 year demonstration was mandated under Section 649 of the MMA to promote the use of health information technology and improve the quality of care for beneficiaries. Doctors in small-to-medium sized practices who meet clinical performance measure standards will receive a bonus payment for managing the care of eligible Medicare beneficiaries. The demonstration will be implemented in California, Arkansas, Massachusetts and Utah.
MedQIC
MedQIC is an online resource for Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) and healthcare professionals working together to improve the quality of care in: Home Health Agencies, Hospitals, Nursing Homes and Physician Offices. MedQIC is designed to stimulate transformation change by sharing best practices and improvement strategies for health care delivery.
Think Cultural Health
United States Department of Health and Human Services- Office of Minority Health
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