Initiative
| Division
of Training & Technical Assistance (DTTA) |
All
Titles |
DTTA
utilizes CARE Act grantees and other quality management consultants
to provide assistance to specific agencies, regions or EMAs. A wide
range of other TA activities supported by DTTA |
- TA consultation
- TA conference
calls
- Listserv
for Title III grantees & SPNS evaluators
- Ryan White
CARE Act 2002 Grantee Conference
- Support
of Resource Centers through cooperative agreements
|
Requests
are made through your project officer |
| HIVQual
Continuous Quality Program |
Titles
III and IV |
Developed
by the New York State Department of Health AIDS Institute, HIVQual
is an approach to improve quality of care for persons with HIV. The
program focuses on systems improvement, information management and
performance measurement |
- Quality
monitoring software
- Agencyspecific
quality improvement consultation
|
Division
of Community Based Programs |
| Institute
for Health Care Improvement (IHI) Collaborative |
Titles
I, III, IV and AETCs |
The
IHI Collaborative focuses on implementing rapid learning strategies
to accelerate the pace of improvement among CARE Act grantees. The
Chronic Care Model is used, which focuses on assuring the delivery
of evidence-based clinical care and strong support for self-management
|
- Learning
Sessions
- Quality
management coaches
- Listserv
- E-mail discussion
groups
- TA conference
calls
- Resource
materials
|
Division
of Training and Technical Assistance |
| HIV
Quality of Care Studies |
Titles
III & IV and providers supported indirectly by Title I & II
|
The
initiative is designed to develop the capacity of CARE Act grantees
to conduct analyses to examine the quality of care currently provided
and undertake quality improvement efforts |
- Consultation
in design of quality management analyses
- Creation
and use of computerized client-level data
|
Office
of Science & Epidemiology, HAB |
| Center
for HIV Quality Care |
All
Titles |
Policy
research on the care of PWAs in Medicaid programs focus on systems
that provide access to standard of care |
- State Profiles
- 12 Steps
to Managed Care (MC)
- MC TA resources
- Cost of
care Evaluations
|
Office
of Science & Epidemiology, HAB |
| Resource
Materials |
All
Titles |
A
wide range of resource materials is available to help support quality
management initiatives at all levels of care |
- Publications,
e.g. Evaluation Monograph Series
- Quality
Management Technical Assistance Guide
- Management
information systems, e.g. CAREWare
|
http://hab.hrsa.gov/
tools.htm
http://www.hab.hrsa.gov/
special/qualitycare.htm
|
| Primary
Care Assessment Tool (PCAT) |
All
Titles |
The
PCAT is a site visit protocol that can be adapted for use in all CARE
Act programs. Four areas of review are delineated. Review of quality
improvement plans are incorporated in the clinical module |
- Clinical
module
- Administrative
module
- Fiscal module
- Support
services
|
http://hab.hrsa.gov/
tools.htm |