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Quality Partners of Rhode Island (Quality Partners) engages in local and national community educational projects that aim to improve healthcare and the quality of delivered in our communities. Currently, these projects include:
Health Care Quality Performance (HCQP) Program
Quality Partners leads the Rhode Island Department of Health’s 11-year-old program to publicly report quality data for healthcare providers and practitioners. Quality Partners’ responsibilities include:
- Convening stakeholder groups,
- Guiding consensus-building, and
- Providing methodological and project management expertise.
Reports to date include clinical and satisfaction data reports for home health agencies, hospitals and nursing homes, as well as measures of physicians' health information technology adoption. Reporting efforts continue to evolve, with new topics added over time.
All of the program's meetings are open to the public. With questions or inquiries, please contact the Project Director, Rosa Baier, MPH at 401-528-3205.
Rhode Island Health Literacy Project (RIHLP)
Formed in 2005, Rhode Island Health Literacy Project(RIHLP) aims to combat health illiteracy. According to a 2004 Institute of Medicine study, 90 million (47%) Americans are health illiterate. Health illiteracy can have many causes, including:
- Inability to Read
- Being Older
- Being Disabled
- Not Speaking English
- Having Cultural Barriers
One way that RIHLP aims to curb health illiteracy is by creating an educational curriculum that will:
- Increase Awareness About Health Illiteracy
- Increase the Number of Rhode Islanders Who Understand Health Information and Self-care Instructions
For more information about the Rhode Island Health Literacy Project, please review the project overview or contact Brenda Jenkins (bjenkins@riqio.sdps.org).
Quitworks
QuitWorks-RI is a free, telephone-based stop-smoking service for people who smoke. The program is offered by the Rhode Island Department of Health. Quality Partners of Rhode Island is focusing on bringing health systems change in tobacco dependence treatment to Rhode Island.
- We partner with healthcare institutions, community healthcare programs and independent providers to assist them in creating individualized, sustainable models of assessment.
- We assist our partners with navigating the workflow changes that support this evidence-based approach to tobacco dependence treatment.
Patients, regardless of health insurance status, can be referred by any healthcare provider by faxing the completed universal enrollment form to QUiTWORKS. Patients can self-refer by calling the QUITLINE @ 1-800-TRY-To-STOP (1-800-879-8678). Since its creation in 2002 by the Massachusetts Department of Health, QuitWorks-MA has enrolled more than 10,000 healthcare consumers. By providing access to a full range of evidence-based tobacco treatment resources, QuitWorks helps healthcare providers counsel patients to increase the odds of success with quitting smoking.
For more information, please review the program fact sheet and our April update.
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