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P002: Public Health Division

P002: The percentage of NMDOH-funded school-based health centers that demonstrate improvement in their primary care or behavioral health care focus area

Current Value

66.0 %

FY 2018

Definition

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Story Behind the Curve

  • Quality improvement (QI) consists of systematic and continuous actions that lead to measurable improvement in health care services and the health status of targeted patient groups. The Institute of Medicine's (IOM), which is a recognized leader and advisor on improving the Nation's health care, defines quality in health care as a direct correlation between the level of improved health services and the desired health outcomes of individuals and populations.
  • This performance measure incorporates other national standards commonly used by Medicare, Medicaid, and health insurance and managed care organizations, and captured in the Uniform Data System (UDS), a standardized reporting system that provides consistent information about health centers.
  • Community health centers, the medical sponsors for NMDOH funded school based health centers, are the providers of choice for essential primary care services for the nation’s most vulnerable populations. 
  • Health centers, including school based health centers, provide access to comprehensive, integrated, patient-centered care with a focus on improving health outcomes and reducing health disparities. Almost all health centers meet or exceed at least one national benchmark goal for quality of care. For example, in 2017, 92% of health centers met or exceeded at least one Healthy People 2020 goal, and nearly all health centers demonstrated improvement on one or more clinical quality measure.
  • All contracts were executed before the end of FY19-Q1.
  • Semi-annual progress reports are due December 15, 2018.  School based health center providers are required to report on their progress in implementing quality improvement processes. Successes and challenges are recognized and course corrections can be made to help ensure the annual performance target is met.
     

Partners

  • New Mexico (NM) Alliance for School-Based Health Care
  • Apex Evaluation
  • NM Human Services Department and Centennial Care Providers
  • NM Primary Care Association
  • NM Community Health Centers
  • NM Public Education Department
  • NM Children Youth and Families Department 
  • NM Behavioral Health Services Division
  • 10 Federally Qualified Health Centers (FQHCs)
  • 3 Regional Education Cooperatives
  • Local school districts and school boards
     

What Works

  • Continuing to align our quality improvement measures with UDS measures and other reporting systems that our FQHC partners must account to.
  • Increasing the number of partnerships with community health centers as this sponsorship improves administrative operations, improves fiscal sustainability and increases the number of school based health centers that can meet their quality improvement goals.

Strategy

Partnering with medical sponsors of school based health centers to address ongoing needs associated with continuous quality improvement for primary and behavioral health care services. Medical sponsors have quality improvement managers within their organizations that help assure adherence to best practices, as well as, improvement of those practices within their organizations.

Action Plan

Milestones: 
Q1: 100% of NMDOH-funded SBHCs will have their contract executed by September 30, 2018. Met - all contracts are in place.
Q2: 100% of NMDOH-funded SBHCs will submit their semi-annual progress report by December 31, 2018
Q3: 75% of NMDOH-funded SBHCs on target to complete required number of student surveys.
Q4: 95% of NMDOH-funded school based health centers will demonstrate improvement in their primary care or behavioral health care, quality improvement focus area.
 

FY19 Annual Progress Summary

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