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The Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium (KCQIC) was formed by the UAW-Ford Community Health Care Initiative and community stakeholders in November 2000 in response to the growing emphasis on evidence-based medicine and multiple parties involved in development of guidelines. In addition, there were occasionally overlapping and conflicting materials, wide-ranging levels of coordination on content, format, distribution, measures, application, differing levels of detail in materials, low utility of some formats, and varied levels of community physician involvement in development. KCQIC received 501c3 non profit status in 2005. KCQIC membership includes stakeholders who share the same goal of quality health.   For information including meeting dates and times contact Cathy Davis PhD (cdavis20@ford.com) or call (816) 453-4424.

Getting Information About the Quality of Care in Hospitals

You want to get the very best care when you or a loved one must go to a hospital. To help you make good decisions about where to go for quality care, the Kansas City Quality Improvement Consortium has downloaded federal government data on the type of care hospitals provide. Based on already publicly available data, consumers can access our reformatted data. You can find out how well hospitals care for patients with certain conditions. You can also compare hospitals.

Click here to find reports on Kansas City hospitals.

You will find information such as:

How often a hospital gives the right treatments for certain conditions—like heart attacks, heart failure, and pneumonia—or procedures—like preventing surgical infections.  The results of care or treatment for certain conditions or procedures.  What hospital patients said about the care they received during a recent hospital stay. Their experiences are an important part of good quality care.

To access national data, visit www.hospitalcompare.hhs.gov.

KCQIC Process

• Convening a widely representative group that promotes and measures – medical societies, health plans, major provider groups, QI staff of hospitals, etc.

• Producing consensus on goals, process, structure, administrative support

• Selecting / prioritizing a small number of guidelines to initiate the process

• Ensuring that Guidelines are consistent in content, contain varied applications, identify common elements, focus on areas of agreement

• Providing an emphasis on practical / useful material and practical application vs. full detail/specialty versions

• Focusing on existing materials at provider groups and plans – versus primary literature review

• Executing a unified notice and distribution

• Assuring that interventions to enhance performance will remain at the discretion of provider groups, plans, etc