Acting CMS Administrator Leslie Norwalk Talks About the Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign

An article in the January 2007 issue of CARING entitled, "Campaigning for Quality: CMS Effort Promotes Home Care Best Practices" features an interview with Acting CMS Administrator Leslie Norwalk regarding the Home Health Quality Improvement National Campaign.

Ms. Norwalk states: "Home health care agencies working intensively with their QIOs to reduce avoidable hospitalizations demonstrated a 5.3 percent improvement that represents a potential cost savings to the Medicare Trust Fund of $121.2 million. We want to accelerate this improvement nationally."

"With (the nursing home quality) initiative, we saw nursing homes using the QIOs as an educational tool. From a philosophical perspective you don't just get a report card, you get a tutor. And that is a lot of what the home health quality initiative is about." Read full article

CARING is a publication of the National Association for Home Care & Hospital (NAHC)