Our History

Since 2002, Oklahoma nursing homes have worked hand-in-hand with OFMQ to improve the quality of life for their residents. OFMQ provides training, and assistance with interventions and tools to help nursing homes improve selected quality measures, and we have helped nursing homes throughout Oklahoma to strategically transition from institutional enviornments to a person-centered model of care. OFMQ has helped lead this culture change movement with expert training resources and and change strategies.

OFMQ has key partnerships with the State Department of Health, Oklahoma Association of Health Care Providers, Oklahoma Association of Homes and Services for the Aging, State Ombudsman's Office, Oklahoma Nurses Association, Oklahoma Medical Directors Association, Oklahoma Health Care Authority, Oklahoma Directors of Nursing Association and Advancing Excellence. These relationships expand our collective knowledge and resources, improve communication among all parties and help to achieve greater and more immediate improvements in the quality of nursing home care.

Current Program Focus

Quality improvement efforts in the nursing home setting are focused on clinical topics important to Oklahoma's Medicare beneficiaries and that the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has identified as national patient safety priorities. OFMQ collaborates with Oklahoma nursing homes to help improve performance in quality of care for these topics. Through consulting, training and special events we provide Oklahoma's nursing homes with new knowledge, resources and tools to evaluate and track performance and develop strategies to improve care. 

The national priority clinical topics for the nursing home setting are reducing the use of physical restraints and improving prevention and treatment of high-risk pressure ulcers.