Quality Improvement Activities (QIAs)
Engaging Patients & Family
Ensuring accurate data
building relationships with esrd facilities
Network activities are designed to align with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) National Quality Strategy (NQS) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to improve the care of individuals with End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD).
About our Network Quality Improvement Activities (QIA)
CMS mandates that the Network shall incorporate a focus on disparities in conducting all of the activities. In each QIA, the Network analyzes data and implements interventions aimed at reducing disparities. All QIAs use innovative approaches and rapid cycle improvement that incorporates boundarilessness, unconditional teamwork, customer-focus, and sustainability to achieve the strategic goals of the ESRD Network Program. The Network is uniquely positioned to ensure full participation of the ESRD community in achieving the aims of the NQS.
Network QIAs:
- Improve Transplant Coordination
- Increase Rates of Patients Dialyzing at Home
- Improve Behavioral Health Outcomes
- Increase Utilization of Vaccines as a Safe, Efficient Way to Protect Individuals from Serious Illness
- Reduce Hospital Admissions, Readmissions, and Outpatient Emergency Visits
- Improve Patient Safety and Reduce Harm in Nursing Home Dialysis
- Improve Patient and Family Engagement at the Facility Level
- Reduce the Use of Long-Term Catheters (LTCs)
- Reduce the Rates of Bloodstream Infections (BSIs)
These projects emphasize:
- Building Network relationships with ESRD patients
- Ensuring representation of ESRD patient in shared decision making related to ESRD care to promote person-centeredness and family engagement
- Protecting ESRD patients' access to and quality of dialysis care, especially among vulnerable populations
- Building Network relationships with ESRD facilities
- Identifying opportunities for quality improvement at the individual facility level and providing technical assistance
- Promoting all modalities of care, including home modalities and transplantation to promote patient independence and improve clinical outcomes
- Facilitating process to promote coordination between care settings
- Ensuring accurate, complete, consistent, and timely data collection, analysis, and reporting by facilities in accordance with national standards and the ESRD QIP