Hospital Quality Framework Project Overview
2024 VPQHC Quality Measure Crosswalk
2022 Vermont Hospital Quality Framework Report
Project Overview
Purpose: To design a framework of meaningful metrics that provides relevant information and accurately reflects the hospital system’s quality of care within the healthcare reform environment in Vermont.
Vision: Vermonters use a hospital quality framework that has meaningful, reliable, and representative metrics about Vermont’s healthcare delivery system.
Workgroup meeting materials:
January 2022 Agenda | Minutes | Presentation
February 2022 Agenda | Minutes | Presentation
March 2022 Agenda | Minutes | Presentation
April 2022 Agenda | Minutes | Presentation
May 2022 Agenda | Meeting Recording | Presentation
June 2022 Agenda | Meeting Recording | Presentation
References
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2022 Report of the Vermont Hospital Quality Framework Workgroup, Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care, Inc., Montpelier, Vermont, September 15, 2022.
2022 Report of the Vermont Hospital Quality Framework Workgroup, Appendix 5. Hospital Report Card Comparison, Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care, Inc., September 2022.
A Core Set of Rural Relevant Measures and Measuring and Improving Access to Care: 2018 Recommendations from the Measure Applications Partnership Rural Health Workgroup, National Quality Forum, August 31, 2018.
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality Inpatient Quality Indicators
Agency of Human Services Scorecards
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National Quality Foundation endorsement criteria
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