Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Assistance
Small Health Care Provider Quality Improvement Assistance
The Community Health Systems Development team at the Georgia Health Policy Center (GHPC) uses a dynamic, team-based technical assistance program, capable of providing tailored technical assistance for each grantee. While based on the grantee’s needs, technical assistance can focus on developing and strengthening partnerships, implementing services, evaluating effectiveness, and planning for sustainability.
Funded Quality grantees have been working on a range of quality initiatives that include patient navigation, discharge planning processes, chronic disease care management, integration of telehealth services, achievement of meaningful use, care coordination, and the linkage of interoperable electronic health records and registries across multiple clinical sites.
To achieve successful implementation of these quality initiatives, the technical assistance team supports grantees in incorporating different models (e.g., Chronic Care Model, Institute for Healthcare Improvement Model for Improvement, Patient-Centered Medical Home), tools (e.g., risk stratification tools such the Tier Assignment Tool and the Johns Hopkins Adjusted Clinical Groups system), and decision-making and management approaches (e.g., Lean Six Sigma, Plan-Do-Study-Act) into their work.