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Prepared for josh D. | Delivered March 4, 2020

QIO Competitors in Nursing Home Consulting

Goals

To identify 3 Quality Improvement Organizations (QIO) competitors in the nursing home (assisted living, home health) consulting space with any details on size, reach, and service offerings and with a focus on individual consultants within the Louisiana/Gulf Coast region or in as close proximity to this region as possible.

Early Findings

The state of Louisiana is bordered by Arkansas on the north, Mississippi on the east and Texas on the west.
 Arkansas Foundation for Medical Care or AFMC serves as one of the Quality Improvement Organizations or QIOs for the state of Arkansas.
 AFMC works in collaboration with Arkansas Medicaid to help the state’s health care professionals and hospitals to offer the best quality care.
Although TMF Health Quality Institute currently serves as the leading QIO in this geography AFMC is responsible for assisting the providers in Arkansas.
In the nursing home consulting space AFMC helps through its antibiotic stewardship programs and leads the infection prevention collaborative in the state.
According to Britannica.com, the Gulf Coast states include the following: Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.
Out of the five states cited above, Alabama, Florida, and Louisiana have Alliant Quality as their QIO, which has already been described in an earlier research.
The states of Mississippi and Texas have TMF Health Quality Institute as their QIO.
The TMF Health Quality Institute is aimed at promoting quality health care through contracts with federal, state and local governments, as well as private organizations.
It serves as a private, nonprofit organization of licensed physicians (MDs and DOs) to lead quality improvement and medical review efforts.
TMF partners with health care providers in multiple settings including the nursing homes.

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