Qualis Health

For Healthcare Professionals:

The Right Care for Every Person, Every Time
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Qualis Health has a long and successful history of collaborating with local healthcare providers and is pleased to continue this tradition in our current Medicare projects.

Under Medicare's Quality Improvement Organization contract, the following quality improvement, reporting, and medical review services are provided at no charge to Idaho and Washington healthcare providers:


Care Setting Quality Improvement Reporting Review
All Settings of Care




Responding to Medicare beneficiary appeals





Responding to Medicare beneficiary complaints
Hospitals

Coordinating projects to improve patient safety:

  • Prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers
  • Reduction of MRSA infection and transmission rates
  • Prevention of surgical infections
  • Proper administration of VTE prophylaxis to surgery patients
  • Proper administration of beta-blockers and ACEI/ARBs to heart failure patients
Assisting hospitals to meet the requirements of nationwide data-collection initiatives
Investigating potential EMTALA violations

Maintaining accurate hospital contact lists for reporting-related communication Maintaining accurate hospital contact lists for appeals-related communication

Supporting the 5 Million Lives campaign
Nursing Homes

Coordinating projects to improve patient safety:

  • Preventing pressure ulcers
  • Lowering the usage of physical restraints

Supporting the Advancing Excellence campaign

Physician Offices

Using EMRs to effectively manage preventive care Promoting the Physician Quality Reporting Initiative (PQRI). See the official website, or sign up for periodic e-mail updates from us.
Cross-Setting Initiatives

Collaborating with the Whatcom County, WA community to address the safety of care transitions


Supporting drug safety initiatives


Sharing knowledge about improvement fundamentals


Article Published in Compliance Today

The August edition of the Health Care Compliance Association's (HCCA) Compliance Today includes an article written by Qualis Health staff Leslie J. Barnette, MD, Margaret Tran, RHIA and Sandra Salinas, RHIT, CPHQ.

The article, "Short-stay admissions: Preventing billing errors," describes a special study we recently conducted with Idaho and Washington hospitals.
Contact

For more information about Qualis Health's Medicare work overall, please contact:

Marci Weis, RN, MPH, CCM, CPUM
Chief Operating Officer
Send an e-mail
800-949-7536