While the MOQI project has officially ended, its mission is being continued through the business venture, NewPath Health Solutions, LLC. Please visit us at newpathhealthsolutions.com to see how we may be of assistance to your facility for both long-stay and short-stay populations. You may also contact us at info@newpathhealthsolutions.com or our Chief Operating Officer, Sue Shumate, directly at (636) 489-8270.

The Missouri Quality Initiative (MOQI) was a Centers for Medicaid and Medicare (CMS) Innovations Center and Medicare-Medicaid Coordination Office sponsored Initiative to reduce avoidable hospitalizations of nursing home residents and improve quality of care for long-stay residents nationwide. In 2012, the MOQI team recruited 16 nursing homes in the St. Louis regional area to participate and they implemented the Initiative intervention successfully (Phase 1). These 16 nursing homes and 24 others then implemented a second intervention (Phase 2) also targeting caring for long-stay nursing home residents who needed additional care in the nursing home for short-term management of acute conditions to avoid hospitalization.

What We Did

Key components of the Phase 1 intervention successfully implemented in the 16 nursing homes included advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs) working full-time within each home with an interdisciplinary MOQI intervention team to support each APRN and nursing home in the initiative. Other key components included implementing INTERACT (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transfers) processes and tools, an emphasis on end-of-life care, and health information technology. Important results are now available in numerous publicly-available articles and now in videos (link below). As Phase 2 of the MOQI Initiative was conducted through 2020, we have shared results in the literature, at national presentations, and this website to help nursing homes use what we learned to improve care and reduce the adverse effects of avoidable hospitalizations of their long-stay residents.

CLICK HERE to find links to 15 videos produced by Mizzou to help explain and educate on the different components of our MOQI Initiative.

Funded by Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services