HPMP Links/Partners
Masspro collaborates with key partners to yield a more powerful impact on performance improvement results. Collaboration includes information sharing, production of events, and promotion of best practices.
Partners
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) administers 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 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 Aging Services Association
The Massachusetts Aging Services Association (MassAging) is the only Massachusetts membership association representing the full continuum of not-for-profit providers of aging services. MassAging has over 140 provider members. It works to achieve a system of healthy, affordable, and ethical aging services for older persons in Massachusetts.
Massachusetts Association for Healthcare Quality
The Massachusetts Association for Healthcare Quality (MAHQ) is dedicated to providing education and other opportunities related to the professional growth of its members, while promoting teamwork and communication within the healthcare community.
Massachusetts Department of Public Health
The Massachusetts Department of Public Health is "dedicated to its mission, to serve all the people of the Commonwealth, particularly the underserved, and to promote healthy people, healthy families, healthy communities and healthy environments through compassionate care, education and prevention."
Massachusetts Extended Care Federation
The Massachusetts Extended Care Federation is committed to working cooperatively with all parties to develop the best possible long-term care system for the state of Massachusetts and its residents. It advocates a balanced approach to long-term care services. The Federation’s members are at the forefront of providing community-based services such as adult day health care and assisted living.
Massachusetts Hospital Association
The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) is a voluntary, not-for-profit organization comprised of hospitals and health systems, related organizations, and other members that have a common interest in promoting the health of the people in the Commonwealth. Through leadership in public advocacy, education, and information, MHA represents and advances the collective interests of its member hospitals and health systems, and supports efforts to provide high-quality, cost-effective, and accessible care.
Massachusetts Medical Society
The Massachusetts Medical Society is the oldest continuously operating medical society in the United States. Its mission is to "...advance medical knowledge, to develop and maintain the highest professional and ethical standards of medical practice and health care, and to promote medical institutions formed on liberal principles for the health, benefit and welfare of the citizens of the Commonwealth."
National Association for Lonh Term Hospitals
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Agency for Health Care Research and Quality
American Health Quality Association
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