Nursing Home Quality Initiative

IFMC, Iowa’s Medicare Quality Improvement Organization offers assistance at no cost to nursing homes by providing education, identifying improvement opportunities and sharing valuable resources and best practices.

The focus of IFMC’s Nursing Home Quality Initiative is to assist nursing homes in providing the best possible care for their residents. These services include improving care processes and setting improvement targets for pressure ulcers, restraints, depression and chronic pain.

Additionally, IFMC is working with nursing homes to increase resident and staff satisfaction through work on organizational culture change and implementing person-centered care.

Our Nursing Home Quality Initiative combines this assistance to improve quality of care with information for consumers about the quality of care provided by nursing homes available at www.medicare.gov.