The National Nursing Home Quality Care Collaborative (NNHQCC) led by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIOs) launched in April 2015 with the mission to improve care for the 1.4 million nursing home residents across the country.

Specifically, over the next five years, the NNHQCC will strive to instill quality and performance improvement practices, eliminate health care-acquired conditions (HACs) and dramatically improve resident satisfaction by focusing on the systems that impact quality. These systems include staffing, operations, communication, leadership, compliance, clinical models, quality of life indicators and specific clinical outcomes such as mobility, inappropriate antipsychotic use for persons living with dementia, and health care-associated infections (HAIs).

Recruitment by the Numbers
While all nursing homes are encouraged to sign up for the national collaborative, QIN-QIOs are doing their part to engage nursing homes in local communities to participate. QIN-QIOs started the first of two breakthrough improvement initiatives, also referred to as Collaborative I, in April 2015. Collaborative II will begin in April 2017, building upon successes and introducing additional improvement opportunities.

Through March 2015, QIN-QIOs recruited 6528 nursing homes (out of 15,518 nationwide) for Collaborative I, including 783 homes with a Nursing Home Compare quality star rating of one. QIN-QIOs are continuing to recruit nursing homes for the collaborative.

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