{"id":9671,"date":"2020-12-30T16:36:51","date_gmt":"2020-12-30T23:36:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsiohn098w.mpqhf.org\/corporate\/?p=9671"},"modified":"2020-12-30T16:37:23","modified_gmt":"2020-12-30T23:37:23","slug":"mountain-pacific-quality-health-named-partner-in-newly-awarded-american-indian-alaska-native-health-care-quality-initiative","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsiohn098w.mpqhf.org\/corporate\/mountain-pacific-quality-health-named-partner-in-newly-awarded-american-indian-alaska-native-health-care-quality-initiative\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Named Partner in  Newly Awarded American Indian\/Alaska Native Health Care Quality Initiative"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>December 30, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a four-year contract to Comagine Health, Mountain-Pacific Quality Health and other partners to lead the American Indian\/Alaska Native Healthcare Quality Initiative within the CMS Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors (NQIIC). Comagine Health, Mountain-Pacific and other partners previously led this work for four years in Arizona, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota. The new work will continue to provide technical assistance to all of the 25 Medicare-certified Indian Health Service (IHS)-managed hospitals across the country to assist with pandemic response and emergency preparedness and to help reduce opioid-related mortality, improve patient safety and improve transitions of care among the American Indian\/Alaska Native community.<\/p>\n<p>Along with Comagine Health, Mountain-Pacific is partnering with a number of Quality Improvement Organizations to carry out this work, including Stratis Health, Great Plains QIN-QIO, Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality and Telligen.<\/p>\n<p>Learn more on hospital quality improvement at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\">www.cms.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>December 30, 2020<br \/>\nThe Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a four-year contract to Comagine Health, Mountain-Pacific Quality Health and other partners to lead the American Indian\/Alaska Native Healthcare Quality Initiative within the CMS Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors (NQIIC). Comagine Health, Mountain-Pacific and other partners previously led this work for four years in Arizona, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota. The new work will continue to provide technical assistance to all of the 25 Medicare-certified Indian Health Service (IHS)-managed hospitals across the country to assist with pandemic response and emergency preparedness and to help reduce opioid-related mortality, improve patient safety and improve transitions of care among the American Indian\/Alaska Native community.<br \/>\nAlong with Comagine Health, Mountain-Pacific is partnering with a number of Quality Improvement Organizations to carry out this work, including Stratis Health, Great Plains QIN-QIO, Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality and Telligen.<br \/>\nLearn more on hospital quality improvement at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cms.gov\">www.cms.gov<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9671","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-new-business","7":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Named Partner in Newly Awarded American Indian\/Alaska Native Health Care Quality Initiative - Mountain Pacific<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dsiohn098w.mpqhf.org\/corporate\/mountain-pacific-quality-health-named-partner-in-newly-awarded-american-indian-alaska-native-health-care-quality-initiative\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Named Partner in Newly Awarded American Indian\/Alaska Native Health Care Quality Initiative - Mountain Pacific\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"December 30, 2020 The Centers for Medicare &amp; Medicaid Services (CMS) awarded a four-year contract to Comagine Health, Mountain-Pacific Quality Health and other partners to lead the American Indian\/Alaska Native Healthcare Quality Initiative within the CMS Network of Quality Improvement and Innovation Contractors (NQIIC). Comagine Health, Mountain-Pacific and other partners previously led this work for four years in Arizona, Minnesota, Montana, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma and South Dakota. The new work will continue to provide technical assistance to all of the 25 Medicare-certified Indian Health Service (IHS)-managed hospitals across the country to assist with pandemic response and emergency preparedness and to help reduce opioid-related mortality, improve patient safety and improve transitions of care among the American Indian\/Alaska Native community. Along with Comagine Health, Mountain-Pacific is partnering with a number of Quality Improvement Organizations to carry out this work, including Stratis Health, Great Plains QIN-QIO, Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality and Telligen. 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