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The Long-Term Quality Alliance Aims to Improve Care
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By Clint Maun CPS
A group of the nation's leading health, consumer, and aging advocates has formed a new alliance to ensure that the 10 million people needing long-term services and supports in the United States receive the highest quality of care regardless of the setting in which it is delivered. The Long-Term Quality Alliance (LTQA) aims to broaden efforts to improve quality of care to include community-based settings as well as nursing homes. It will do so by fostering "person-centered" quality measures for people who need long-term services and supports to enhance their quality of life, reduce unnecessary hospitalizations and utilizations, and decrease costs.
The LTQA Board is comprised of 29 leaders from organizations representing caregivers, consumers, quality improvement, nursing homes, accreditation, aging issues, foundations, the federal government, private payers, and academia. The group was formed to respond to the increasing demand for long-term care and the expanding field of providers who are delivering that care, including in home- and community-based settings such as assisted living facilities and adult day care.
The Alliance will focus initially on two important healthcare issues that have been identified as national health priorities-how to improve care coordination or transitions in care and how to avoid unnecessary hospital admissions among frail and chronically ill people.
The Alliance's key priorities will include:
. Identifying which performance measures and evidence-based practices offer the most promise for assessing and improving quality of care and quality of life for people receiving long-term care;
. Recommending ways to apply available measurement and performance improvement strategies in high-priority areas such as care coordination more consistently and appropriately in a wider range of clinical and community settings;
. Proposing ways to build on, reinforce, and create momentum for other quality initiatives currently underway; and
. Achieving tangible improvements in care through pilots, demonstrations, technical collaboration and other efforts.
The group held its first formal meeting on January 28 at the Brookings Institution and will operate as a membership organization. Members will help identify the most relevant quality benchmarks as well as have access to evidence-based practice tools and lessons learned from pilots and demonstrations.
"Individual commitment to a group effort -- that is what makes a team work,
a company work, a society work, a civilization work."
-Vince Lombardi
By Clint Maun, CPS - www.maunlemke.com
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