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41. Using Federal grants to build intellectual capital at the State level | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2015 - State strategies Specifically, the demonstration grants allowed States to build intellectual capital … Lessons learned Because of the demonstration, States had an opportunity to enhance their technical … Analysis of information from stakeholder interviews indicates that States benefitted from this opportunity … In several States, the experience and resources developed to improve quality of care for children were … Some States contributed substantial in-kind resources to support demonstration activities and, in doing

42. Reporting and using the Child Core Set of quality measures | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2015 - capital at the State level In conclusion Program objectives CMS encourages all States … State strategies To accomplish their objectives, the 10 demonstration States used varying combinations … Key stakeholders within States especially value measures that can be used for QI within health systems … Most States have not yet demonstrated widespread use of EHR data for calculating quality measures. … States may not be able to produce measures that require EHR data because States and health systems have

43. Section 6: Operating a Care Management Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - Under any implementation strategy, States should draw on other States' experiences, other program successes … States may need to modify existing conditions make the test possible. … States should not spend valuable time obtaining support. … Instead, States should focus on making the test successful. … States can use the PDSA cycle on a smaller scale, as well.

44. Appendix C. Obstacles to Impact Analysis of Category C Projects | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2015 - Of the 17 States participating in Category C, 12 focused on PCMH models, three were focused on finding … We wanted to ensure that we had the potential to combine data across the States to maximize the chances … Hence, we excluded the five States not working to implement PCMH models because those models and the … CMS did not require or encourage States to develop comparison groups for any of their CHIPRA projects … Of the 12 PCMH States, we excluded from our planned analysis the States that did not agree to recruit

45. Section 3: Selecting and Targeting Populations for a Care Management Program (continued) | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - Many States provide more intense care management services to the most high-risk or high-cost members. … States can implement a risk stratification tool or a predictive model to categorize members in high-, … Stratification Stratification allows States to direct program resources most appropriately. … States use predictive modeling to identify and stratify members for care management programs. … States typically contract with an external vendor for predictive modeling.

46. COVID-19-Related Hospitalizations in 13 States, by Patient Race/Ethnicity, 2020 | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2021 - COVID-19-Related Hospitalizations in 13 States, by Patient Race/Ethnicity, 2020 HCUP Statistical … Brief #276  COVID-19-Related Hospitalizations in 13 States, by Patient Race/Ethnicity, 2020 (PDF, … analysis is limited to discharges for patients treated in community, nonrehabilitation hospitals in 13 States … In April 2020, across the 13 States, the COVID-19 related age-adjusted in-hospital mortality rate for … Select to access COVID-19-Related Hospitalizations in 13 States, by Patient Race/Ethnicity, 2020 (PDF

47. How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States supporting the use of care coordinators? Evaluation Highlight No. 9 (pdf file)
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    September 08, 2015 - The experiences of these States and practices may be helpful to other States and practices interested … Findings States approached the use of care coordinators differently All six States established similar … Even in States in which practices did not independently hire care coordinators, States structured the … States provide training and support directly to care coordinators The States prepared care coordinators … States and many practices reported that care coordinators improve health care quality All States are

48. Improving Care and Proving It! | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    March 01, 2019 - National Evaluation of the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program Presentation to the Demonstration States … of Page Slide 8 Claims, Administrative, and Medical Home Data Working with seven Category C states … (IL, MA, ME, NC, OR, SC, WV) and one Category B state (PA) Major efforts by states to provide files … What strategies are states using to integrate behavioral and physical health services? … Learn how CHIPRA quality demonstration States are using quality reports to drive health care improvement

49. Report Organization | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2013 - This section includes the sustainment plans that have been developed, or are being developed, by States … The contract was expanded in fall 2009 to include all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto … Some States were unable to recruit 10 hospitals. … For example, Delaware had only nine acute care hospitals in the State, and States in later cohorts had … access hospitals, and to attempt to recruit all 50 States, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico

50. Health Care Quality: How Does Your State Compare? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2018 - (PDF, 234 KB) Top-Performing States: Lowest Rates of Breast Cancer Deaths per 100,000 Women: New … Hampshire: 19 Wisconsin: 19 Rhode Island: 18 Massachusetts: 18 Top Performing States: Highest … Clot Prevention Medication: Rhode Island: 98% Wisconsin: 98% Massachusetts: 97% Top-Performing States

51. Introduction | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - Today in the United States, more than 90 million Americans live with a chronic illness, and many have … More than half of the Nation's States have implemented Medicaid care management programs. … To assist States offering care management to their FFS and PCCM populations, the Agency for Healthcare … Since 2005, a total of 18 States have reviewed and analyzed the experiences of other States, best practices … This Medicaid Care Management Guide reflects the experiences of the initial 13 Learning Network States

52. What We Learned: Five Key Lessons | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    January 01, 2013 - High-performing and challenged States were defined by the degree of CLABSI rate reduction or the number … States also asked for a focus on the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU). … Supplemental funds were provided by AHRQ to States/regions to support local needs. … In some States, there was competition for hospital recruitment with the State QIO. … Other States were able to work with their QIO and not compete for hospital unit recruitment.

53. How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States using quality reports to drive heatlh care improvements for children? Evaluation Highlight No. 11 (pdf file)
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    September 08, 2015 - How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States using quality reports to drive heatlh care improvements for … How States Used Quality Reports to Drive QI at the State and Practice Levels Note: All six States pursued … This Highlight describes the reports States produced, how States used the reports to encourage QI … States plan to sustain quality reporting and QI efforts The States are planning to sustain some of … States compared their performance to that of other States that are reporting the Child Core Set to

54. Building partnerships to improve quality of children’s health care | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    September 01, 2015 - grant applications, CMS encouraged multi-State partnerships to increase the number of participating States …           Six of the demonstration grants involved multi-State partnerships involving a total of 14 States … Managing a successful partnership requires States to set aside time and resources to address challenges … Analysis of the projects implemented by the 14 demonstration States involved in multi-State partnerships … States are more apt to benefit from partnering when each brings complementary rather than equivalent

55. How are CHIPRA quality demonstration States supporting the use of care coordinators? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    July 01, 2014 - The experiences of these States and practices may be helpful to other States and practices interested … Findings States approached the use of care coordinators differently All six States established similar … Even in States in which practices did not independently hire care coordinators, States structured the … States provide training and support directly to care coordinators The States prepared care coordinators … States and many practices reported that care coordinators improve health care quality All States are

56. How did CHIPRA quality demonstration States employ learning collaboratives to improve children's health quality? Evaluation Highlight #13 (pdf file)
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    September 08, 2015 - How did CHIPRA quality demonstration States employ learning collaboratives to improve children's health … In February 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded 10 grants, funding 18 States … The 18 CHIPRA quality demonstration States are implementing 52 projects in five general categories: … • At the conclusion of learning collaborative activities, practices in all nine States featured in … Several States supplemented lectures with role-playing and competitive team games.

57. How did CHIPRA quality demonstration States employ learning collaboratives to improve children’s health care quality? | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    June 01, 2015 - How did CHIPRA quality demonstration States employ learning collaboratives to improve children’s health … In February 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded 10 grants, funding 18 States … The 18 demonstration States are implementing 52 projects in five general categories: Using quality … These States implemented learning collaboratives and subsequently reported quantifiable improvements … Several States supplemented lectures with role-playing and competitive team games.

58. Section 1: Planning a Care Management Program | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
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    October 01, 2014 - other States. … States usually establish care management programs to meet multiple needs. … Because Medicaid is jointly funded by States and the Federal Government, States should consider their … States should consider relevant components from multiple States and develop a care management program … Reviewing formal evaluations of other States' programs.

59. Evaluation Highlight No. 2, May 2013. How are States and evaluators measuring medical homeness in the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program? (pdf file)
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    September 08, 2015 - How are States and evaluators measuring medical homeness in the CHIPRA Quality Demonstration Grant Program … In February 2010, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded 10 grants, funding 18 States … The 18 demonstration States are implementing 51 projects in five general categories: • Using quality … Oregon, and its partner States, Alaska and West Virginia, chose components from both tools. … bringing the total number of States collecting MHI data to 10.

60. What Factors Influence States’ Capacity to Report Children’s Health Care Quality Measures? A Multiple-Case Study (pdf file)
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    July 01, 2016 - states (Fig. 2). … 13 in other demonstration states and 15 in non-demonstration states. … (n = 10) Other Demonstration States (n = 8) Non-Demonstration States and DC (n = 33) Fig. 2 Median … Indeed, demonstration states that did not focus on the Child Core Set and non-demonstration states … United States Congress. (2009).