Specifications include, but are not limited to: Major components of the State’s learning health system include primary care practice transformation; implementation of Integrated Care Teams to provide seamless, well-coordinated, efficient and comprehensive care management services for people in need of such services; expansion of treatment for substance abuse and co-occurring mental health disorders; work with women’s health providers to prevent unintended pregnancy and improve women’s health; and cross organization quality improvement projects to improve population health and reduce costs. To support the implementation of these components, the Blueprint has developed the Expansion and Quality Improvement Program (EQuIP), a team of trained individuals known as QI facilitators with the skills to help practices, integrated care teams, communities and programs build the capacity to improve care through use of evidence-based guidelines, innovative strategies and quality improvement approaches including data-driven Plan-Do-Study-Act (PDSA) cycles. The State is seeking quality improvement facilitators who will participate in the EQuIP team and implement these components. EQuIP QI facilitators work with multi-disciplinary teams in primary care practices, women’s health practices and providers, integrated care communities, specialty substance abuse and mental health treatment programs, and community collaboratives on implementing and managing continuous quality improvement. Relationships between QI facilitators and practices/integrated care teams /programs are long term and interventions are based on the needs and vision of the practice, integrated care team or organization based on their size, patient population, organizational structure, partnerships with other practices and organizations, community and type of care provided.
