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Serious Illness Care: Measures Can Add Patient Insight
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Care for the seriously ill is an emerging field. Programs that offer care in the community to people living with serious illness are proliferating across the country. They range...
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Celebrating Women’s History and Women’s Health
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We know what you’re thinking, “how does Women’s History Month fit into the work we do here at NCQA?” Allow me to explain. A bit of history… March’s 2018 Women’s History Month...
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4 Things to be Aware of During Kidney Awareness Month
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - No matter how much information is out there about disease prevention – diet, exercise and smoking – more people die from preventable chronic disease. We’re talking about the...
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#NationalNutritionMonth-Healthy Steps to Combat Obesity
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - National Nutrition Month 2018 What you eat matters! That’s why this March we are celebrating National Nutrition Month by recognizing health plans that are taking action against...
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Improving Kidney Disease Care
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - March is National Kidney Month, and NCQA and our colleagues at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) know just how serious kidney disease is in this country. We’re working...
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Measuring Personal Health Goals: An Opportunity
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - As you know, we’re all about measurement at NCQA. We live by that old credo, if you don’t measure, you can’t improve. You must gauge progress, adjust to improve, and measure...
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Strengthening Care for Vulnerable Populations with Quality Measures
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Across the country, budget shortfalls have put pressure on state Medicaid programs that provide most publicly funded long-term service and supports (LTSS). Simultaneously, many...
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April’s STD Awareness Month 2018
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - April’s STD Awareness Month Health class was most likely your first lesson in preventing and treating Sexually Transmitted Diseases (STDs). Back then, it seemed like a far-fetched...
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Caring for the Seriously Ill – An Academy to Share Best Practices
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Home. It’s where most of us want to be as we age, become seriously ill or have difficulty getting around. Home is where most of us prefer to stay if we need long-term care. How...
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Kansas Medicaid Managed Care: Raising the Quality Bar – Includes NCQA LTSS...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - More than 5 million people receive long-term services and supports (LTSS) in Medicaid. Around the world, more and more people need long-term services and supports (LTSS). Those...
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Multicultural Health Care Distinction: Improving Health Equity for All
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Growing up as a Black man in this country has been… interesting. Although my parents provided for me and I was fortunate enough to get an education, the differences between how...
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Alcohol Screening: What We Know, What We’ve Done and What We (and Plans) Can Do
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Alcohol Screening: What we Know Unhealthy Alcohol Use Screening and Follow-up Learning Collaborative We all know someone who has struggled with alcoholism. Now, consider this: The...
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Connecting Medical Care and Social Services
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - It’s a fact that people who are homeless, unemployed, experiencing addiction or have similar challenges in life are more likely to become sick or ignore their heath altogether....
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Children’s Mental Illness on the Rise: How One Project Looks to Address This...
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - A strong stigma still surrounds mental illness. That’s troubling when you look at just how many people are affected by mental health issues. That number is rising. According to a...
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#StrokeAwareness – Highlighting the Heart/Stroke Recognition Program
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - My family has a long history of heart disease and stroke. In fact, my uncle had a mild stroke recently that impaired his vision. He couldn’t perform some simple tasks for weeks—he...
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Peggy O’Kane: “Most Influential” Nominee
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - Our quality leader, our own president, Peggy O’Kane, is among the many people nominated for Modern Healthcare’s 100 Most Influential People in Healthcare. In so many ways,...
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CMS Releases Medicaid and CHIP Scorecard
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - We all want good, quality health care for ourselves and our families. No real debate there. But how many of us really know—fully understand what we’re getting in a health plan?...
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Announcing New York State PCMH Program
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - New York State PCMH Program As health care moves toward a value-based delivery system – paying doctors for the quality of care their patients are receiving and keeping patients...
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Professionalism Charter Adds a Champion
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - When I first wrote about the Charter on Professionalism for Health Care Organizations, I didn’t anticipate that I’d soon be able to pass along this great news: Don Berwick has...
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Improving care for those with advanced illness and frailty
NCQA Blog NCQA Blog - For many people, there is a point in life where frailty or advanced illness begin to impact function and overall quality of life. What’s meaningful or most important for them may...
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