Provider Resources Improving Hospital Care
Improving Hospital Care
To further its mission of improving the quality of healthcare across Maine, Quality Counts focuses on improving hospital care and ambulatory care. The goal is to support the sharing of information about best practices and programs that will help improve the quality of care for patients.
Specific objectives are to:
- Connect providers across the state and promote sharing of information to promote the spread of quality improvement best practices throughout the state of Maine.
- Assess current quality improvement capacity across the state.
- Identify gaps that may be hampering quality improvements.
- Offer opportunities for stakeholders to connect.
- Facilitate collaborative learning and information sharing.
- Offer opportunities for providers to learn from each other and national experts. (Read More)
Improvement Opportunity for Maine hospitals: AF4Q Hospital Quality NetworkAs part of its Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) effort, Quality Counts was able to offer support to Maine hospitals interested in participating in the AF4Q “Hospital Quality Network”, an improvement effort aimed at reducing readmissions, increasing ED throughput, and improving language services. Read more...
Transforming Care at the Bedside
Nurses play a very important role in helping to improve the quality of care at hospitals. The Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) program will help nurses and other frontline staff make changes that will improve patient safety. This program is part of a national effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) initiative, and is being led in |
Maine Infection Prevention CollaborativeIn the Maine Infection Prevention Consortium (MPIC) hospitals from all across Maine are working together to prevent healthcare-associated infections. The goal of MPIC is to create widespread changes in healthcare facilities that will help prevent healthcare associated infections from happening. National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP)As stated by the Maine Chapter of the American College of Surgeons (ACS), the ACS National Surgical Quality Improvement Program (NSQIP) "is the first nationally validated, risk-adjusted, outcomes-based program to measure and improve the quality of surgical care. The program uses a prospective, peer-controlled, validated database to quantify 30-day risk-adjusted surgical outcomes, which allows valid comparison of outcomes among all hospitals in the program. Participating hospitals will be provided with tools, reports, analysis, and support needed to make informed decisions about improving quality of care."
Quality Counts is involved in conjunction with the Maine Chapter of the American College of Surgeons to support this new Aligning Forces for Quality initiative as a part of the Pathways to Excellence program to encourage hospitals to participate in a statewide NSQIP. For further information about the NSQIP visit www.maine-acs.org and select NSQIP from the menu. |