Quality Assurance
and Quality Improvement in Home and Community Based Services
Name of Grantee
Oregon
Department of Human Services, Seniors and People with
Disabilities (SPD)
Title of Grant
Type of Grant
Quality
Assurance and Quality Improvement in Home and Community Based Services
Amount of Grant
$455,113
Year Original Funding
Received
2003
DeAnna Hartwig, Administrator
Office of Federal Resources and Financial Eligibility
Department of Human Services
Seniors and People with Disabilities
500 Summer Street NE, E-02
Salem, OR 97301-1073
503-947-1180
deanna.j.hartwig@state.or.us
Human Services Research Institute
Persons of all ages with
disabilities.
Over 36 months, the Oregon Department of Human
Services, SPD proposes to develop an improved and balanced approach to quality
assurance and quality improvement for in-home, long-term care services
delivered to persons who are aged, physically disabled, or developmentally
disabled. The top priority is to improve the systems that help ensure
individual health and safety and address issues related to individual risk
management.
This project addresses four quality
assurance/quality improvement functions: design, discovery, remediation, and
systems improvement. The project will produce more reliable, accurate,
consistent, and useful information regarding health and safety matters. This
information will be used for quality assurance purposes at the county,
regional, and state levels, and also to ensure an effective system is in place
to respond to critical incidents/events at the individual plan-level as they
occur.
The project will also focus on remediation and
systems improvements as better and more consolidated information becomes
available. The plan for sustainability will address activities for continuing
key grant-initiated activities and also prioritize the continual refinement of
the remediation and systems improvement functions.
As a result of grant activities, by 2006 SPD will
have developed the written tools and procedures and conducted the training
needed to achieve and sustain an improvement in the quality of
community-integrated services.