The National Quality Forum Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Quality Project released their last of three interim reports, Addressing Performance Measure Gaps in Home and Community-Based Services to Support Community Living: Priorities for Measure Development.
- The first interim report described the Committee’s foundational work of creating an operational definition, identifying characteristics of high-quality HCBS, developing domains of measurement, and illustrating the function of performance measurement in HCBS.
- The second interim report for the project assessed the current HCBS quality measurement landscape, based on a synthesis of evidence and environmental scan of measures, measure concepts, and instruments used or proposed for use in HCBS programs.
- This third interim report details the Committee’s work in identifying gaps in quality measurement and crafting recommendations for prioritization in measurement. Through review of the findings from the environmental scan and Committee deliberations, the Committee identified gaps in measurement within all of the domains and subdomains. In addition to identification of gaps, the Committee discussed the barriers and challenges to measuring HCBS quality.
Public comments to the report will be accepted by NQF through July 15 at 6:00 PM ET. You will need to log in to the NQF website to submit comments. LeadingAge submitted comments concerning Domain Specific Recommendations, Gaps in Measurement and Prioritization in Measurement.
LeadingAge welcomes the Administration for Community Living (ACL) requesting public comments on how the federal government should measure quality in home and community-based services. The Department of Health and Human Services contracted the National Quality Forum (NQF) to publish these report and materials on this issue.
Please contact the project team with any questions.
Story written by Peter Notarstefano and republished from LeadingAge National. Visit the link to the original article.
