Expert Support for Your Team,
Better Health for Your Patients

KHC—in partnership with HQIN, the Quality Improvement Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) in Kansas—builds collaborative community coalitions that include hospitals, clinicians, pharmacists, home health agencies, and community-based organizations. These community-based partnerships are being facilitated in targeted zip codes statewide by KHC quality improvement advisors.

Improvement Goals

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	Chronic Disease Self Management Identify and manage people with chronic kidney disease to slow its progression. Refer patients to CDC-recognized diabetes lifestyle change programs. Bring hypertension, hyperlipidemia and hemoglobin A1c levels under control for more of your patients. Help more of your patients quit smoking.
	Care Transitions Participate in your community’s Care Transitions Coalition to: Reduce hospital admissions and readmissions. Reduce avoidable ED visits and admissions by super-utilizers. Reduce avoidable admissions, readmissions, and super-utilization.
	Behavioral Health & Opioids Implement best practices for pain management and opioid use. Decrease opioid-related adverse drug events for patients who take high-risk medications* or have a behavioral health diagnosis. *Anticoagulants, diabetic medications, opioids, and antipsychotics.
	Patient Safety Reduce adverse drug events for all patients. Reduce adverse drug events for patients who take high-risk medications.* Adopt antibiotic stewardship strategies to prevent C. difficile in the community. *Anticoagulants, diabetic medications, opioids, and antipsychotics.
	Patient Engagement & Experience Entities who work on these goals receive support and guidance to: Activate patients for greater engagement in decision making and disease self-management. Improve the way you deliver services to increase your patient experience of care ratings.