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Policy and Regulatory Considerations to Address Urgent Needs During the Pandemic: Recommendations from Minnesota’s Serious Illness Action Network

To address urgent needs in serious illness care during Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19), Stratis Health and Minnesota Network of Hospice & Palliative Care (MNHPC) convened a virtual forum in August 2020, resulting in a new report that includes action plans for the pandemic and beyond.

Superior Health Joins Nationwide Initiative to Fight COVID-19 in Nursing Homes

As part of the Superior Health Quality Alliance (Superior Health), Stratis Health is joining a nationwide training program to help keep Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) from spreading in area nursing homes and to prepare and equip staff so that they can better protect residents and themselves.

Superior Health to Provide Hospital Quality Improvement Services for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services

Stratis Health, as part of the Superior Health Quality Alliance, will serve hospitals in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin within the Hospital Quality Improvement Contractor (HQIC) program.

Stratis Health Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Since April, Stratis Health’s quality improvement work has pivoted to address the extreme challenges presented by the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. We’re working with our funders to best use our programs, resources, and relationships in redirected ways to support health care organizations in addressing the pandemic. 

National Quality Forum Selects Stratis Health as Member of 2020‐2021 Measure Applications Partnership

The Board of Directors of the National Quality Forum (NQF) has selected Stratis Health to serve as a voting member on the Hospital Workgroup of the 2020‐2021 Measure Applications Partnership (MAP), a public-private partnership convened by the National Quality Forum to provide input to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) on the selection of performance measures....

Survey Prioritizes Telehealth Policies to Keep Post-Pandemic

Codifying Components of the Medicare 1135 Waiver Stratis Health convenes a Virtual Health Sharing Group of health system telehealth directors, representing 11 health systems in Minnesota. Since 2017, the group discusses telehealth implementation progress, challenges, and priority topics. With the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) outbreak, the group increased meeting frequency to discuss strategies around the...

First Episode Now Available: Quality Time: Sharing PIE Recorded Conversations

In September 2019, Stratis Health selected eight experienced critical­ access hospital (CAH) staff to serve as national Virtual Quality Improvement (QI) Mentors through a new program that aims to broadly transfer knowledge from leading CAH quality improvement staff to others across the country. As part of this program, the QI mentors come together periodically to...

Telehealth Use in Minnesota – More than 1,000-Fold Increase

COVID-19 Propels Increase in Telehealth Stratis Health convenes a Virtual Health Sharing Group of health system telehealth directors, representing 11 health systems in Minnesota. Since 2017, the group discusses telehealth implementation progress, challenges, and priority topics. With the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak, the group increased meeting frequency to discuss strategies around the rapidly changing telehealth guidelines...

Stratis Health Announces New Board Members – Jamie Carsello, Kelly Fluharty, and Karen Monsen

Jamie Carsello, Kelly Fluharty, and Karen Monsen join the board of directors of Stratis Health, a Bloomington-based nonprofit organization that leads collaboration and innovation in health care quality and safety, and serves as a trusted expert in facilitating improvement for people and communities. Stratis Health welcomes their rich experience in care transformation, affordability, and access....

Laura Grangaard Johnson Selected to Serve on CMS Technical Expert Panel for Reevaluation of Inpatient Claims-Based Outcome Measures

Laura Grangaard Johnson, MPH, senior research analyst at Stratis Health, was selected to serve on a national Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) technical expert panel (TEP) for the Reevaluation of Inpatient Claims-Based Outcome Measures. She brings subject matter expertise in rural critical access hospitals and quality measure development and evaluation, and experience working...