IPRO Statement of Work Impact Report
The Situation Report | April 7, 2025
IPRO, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality Improvement and Innovation Group, produced their 12th Statement of Work Activities and Achievements Impact Report.
IPRO is the nation’s largest Quality Innovation Network – Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO), leading impactful quality improvement work across 11 states and the District of Columbia. Alongside providers and community organizations including the Home Care Association of NYS (HCANYS) and HCA Education and Research (HCA E&R), IPRO advanced the quality improvement efforts for over 8.7 million Medicare Beneficiaries.
This report details the outcomes achieved through the QIN-QIO.
Key achievements include:
- Opioid Utilization and Misuse: Reduced opioid related hospital encounters and expanded naloxone assessment, education, and training.
- Chronic Disease Management: Improved blood pressure control, participation in cardiac rehabilitation programs, and the rate of managed chronic kidney disease.
- COVID-19 Infection Prevention and Training: 100% of nursing homes created safe visitor policies, and public health emergency preparedness plans, and over 2000 Infection Preventionists attended office hours.
- Nursing Home Patient Safety: Reduced hospitalizations due to infections acquired in nursing homes and decreased adverse drug events for long-stay residents.
- Care Coordination: Reduced hospital use and readmissions and decreased avoidable emergency room visits.
- Adult Immunization: Increased vaccination rates and awareness.
- Health Equity: Decline in emergency room visits, 30-day readmissions, and provided education and resources on culturally and linguistically appropriate services.
Click here to read the full report.
The NYS IPRO team are incredible partners to HCANYS and HCA E&R working closely together on several grant funded initiatives. The IPRO team are reliable members of several HCANYS committees and workgroups and continue to be excellent expert resources for our team.
Some of the collaborative work done in conjunction with IPRO includes:
- Addressing Health Disparities Through Home Care: Assessment of needs and interventions, getting to know your community partners, and social determinants of health screening tools and educational webinars.
- Collaborative Models of Community Medicine and Paramedicine, in reporting, data collection, nursing expertise, and more.
- Sepsis Screening and Intervention Tool in data collection and management, and informing the development and improvement, and providing technical assistance.
- CDC Project FirstLine Infection Prevention and Control Training for Home Care and Hospice.
- Infection Prevention and Control Teaching for Patients and their Caregivers with Sepsis Alliance.
Read more about each of these grants on our website. Several of these resources will be available soon on HCA E&R’s new Learning Center.