QIN-QIO 12th SOW

National Successes

• The QIN-QIOs worked with more than 11,600 nursing homes.
• Rapid response COVID-19 reduction efforts led to 6,700 nursing home residents’ lives saved in the first year of the pandemic and continues to reduce COVID-19 infections among nursing home residents. Nursing homes who worked with QIN-QIOs had:
  
  
  • 25.2% fewer resident COVID-19 infections
  • 26.4% fewer resident hospitalizations
  • 24.3% fewer resident deaths
• The QIN-QIOs had more than 40,000 one-on-one encounters as part of a targeted COVID-19 vaccine response.
• Nursing home resident deaths from COVID-19 fell by 55%.
• Working with community partners, the emphasis on preventive health led to a 12.5% reduction in hospitalizations and 20% reduction in all-cause readmissions.

Pennsylvania and West Virginia Nursing Home Care

Together, we have achieved significant relevant improvements over baseline data in nursing home care during the past five years, including:

• A 10.5% improvement in reducing opioid-related adverse events
• A 31.1% decrease in hospitalizations due to C. Difficile Infection
• Notable increases in COVID-19 vaccination rates among residents and staff, at 60.0% and 36.0% relative improvements over baseline, respectively.

Pennsylvania and West Virginia Partnership for Community Health Coalition Successes

Together, through our Partnership for Community Health Coalition initiatives, we have achieved significant relevant improvements over baseline data during the past five years, including:

• Reducing opioid-related adverse drug events and deaths among high-risk patients by 10.5%
• Improving blood pressure control among Medicare beneficiaries with hypertension by 34.6%
• Reducing the percentage of Medicare beneficiaries with diabetes who had hemoglobin A1c levels above 9.0% by 88.2%
• Lowering hospital utilization among Medicare beneficiaries by 11.6 per 1,000 beneficiary years
• Decreasing the total number of 30-day hospital readmissions for Medicare beneficiaries by 14.6%