Oklahoma Foundation for Medical Quality is pleased to announce it was awarded a new three-year contract to serve as the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) for Oklahoma beginning on August 1, 2011 and ending on July 31, 2014. The new Medicare quality improvement program aligns with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' bold goals of improving care for patients, improving health for populations and lowering costs through quality improvement.

OFMQ will help providers collaborate to integrate and coordinate care across settings within communities, improve community health by promoting preventive services, and make health care costs sustainable in the long term by supporting care that keeps patients safe from costly and dangerous complications and harm. These initiatives supports the administration’s National Quality Strategy and its Partnership for Patients, designed to build collaborative models to improve health care quality, reduce hospital-acquired conditions and lower hospital readmissions.

We will be inviting hospitals, nursing homes, physicians and other stakeholders in healthcare to join us in this new journey toward transforming healthcare. We have exciting new work ahead and we look forward to engaging with our partners. Look for more information coming from OFMQ soon.

Read the news released from CMS August 5, 2011.

Read the CMS Fact Sheet .