Quality
Assurance and Quality Improvement in Home and Community Based Services
Grant
Information
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
Contact
Information
DeAnna Hartwig
CMS Waiver and Federal Reporting Manager
500 Summer Street NE, E-02
Salem, OR 97301–1073
503–947–1180
deanna.j.hartwig@state.or.us
Subcontractor(s)
Human Services Research Institute
Target
Population(s)
Persons of all ages with disabilities.
Goals
Activities
Abstract
Over 36 months, the Oregon Department of Human Services,
Seniors and People with Disabilities (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 assure 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 assure 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.