Benefits of Participation

Optimize your performance with FREE support, resources, tools, networking and benchmarking based on CMS data
- Monthly ACH educational resources designed for ease of implementation consisting of educational tools and resources, best-practice guidelines, success stories and other resources targeting reduction of avoidable acute care hospitalization
- Intervention materials will provide resources to agency staff across clinical disciplines, as well as support staff, administration and management
- Opportunities to earn Continuing Education Credits (CEUs)
Improve your ACH rate or sustain an exemplary ACH rate without creating additional burden
- Select the tools and resources that meet your agency's needs
- Streamline your current efforts
- Evaluate your current ACH rate and ask: Is this as good as you can get? Are you satisfied with your ACH outcome rate? If so, can you sustain that rate?
Prepare your agency for Pay-for-Performance and identify the potential for cost savings related to a decrease in avoidable ACH
- Monthly reports will provide ACH benchmarking data, comparing your agency to the statewide and national percentile rankings. Further breakdown of reason for hospitalization, percentage of hospital admissions by day of the week and hospital admissions by urgency of hospitalization will also be provided.
- New York HHAs spend over 34 million dollars in labor cost related to ACH Annual ACH Salary Cost = (ACH Episodes in 12 months)*(transfer + ROC time)*(average NY RN hourly wage)
Take advantage of this high-profile opportunity to showcase your agency
- This is an unprecedented national initiative with support from key home health stakeholders, including the National Association for Homecare and Hospice, American Association for Homecare, Visiting Nurses Association of America, American Telemedicine Association, Hospice and Palliative Nurses Association, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, American Occupational Therapy Association, American Physical Therapy Association, American Speech-Language-Hearing Association, and the Center for Home Care Policy and Research
Opportunity for leadership to demonstrate your agency's commitment to quality and improved patient care to staff, referral sources and the community
- A "Seal of Recognition" HHQI logo will be provided to registered participants to use in marketing to showcase your quality improvement commitment
Cope with staff turnover
- Monthly ACH Intervention Packages will be an efficient way to keep new quality improvement personnel, management and clinical field staff up-to-date with best practice strategies for reducing hospitalizations

HHQI Campaign Participant Data

Available to participating HHAs

This table compares data that is currently available to all home health agencies with the data that will be provided exclusively to registered participants in the HHQI National Campaign:


All HHAs	Campaign Participants
OBQI Report Outcome rates (current rates are NOT risk-adjusted)	Actual and risk-adjusted ACH rates
Monthly outcome rates must be derived from Tally Reports (with a 2½ - 3 month lag)	Calculated monthly ACH rates (With only 1½ - 2 month lag)
Home Health Compare risk-adjusted ACH rate updated quarterly (with a 6-9 month lag)	Risk-adjusted ACH rate updated monthly (with only a 2½ - 3 month time lag)
Vendor specific benchmarking	National and Statewide ACH benchmarking based on CMS data