Improvement Teams

Antibiotic Stewardship: Works to address the ongoing public health concerns around antibiotic overuse that leads to antibiotic resistance. The group specifically looks at prescribing practices around sinusitis, upper respiratory infection and bronchitis and brings awareness through data and education to WCHQ clinicians.

Asthma: WCHQ collects data on the ACT asthma control test and has developed a new project aimed at developing novel interventions to drive asthma improvement across the membership.

‍Behavioral Health: WCHQ is supporting members' efforts to integrate behavioral health into primary care, increase depression screening rates, and related topics. WCHQ is supporting members' efforts to integrate behavioral health into primary care, increase depression screening rates, and related topics.

Chronic Disease Learning Collaborative: This learning collaborative meets with experts to learn and share best practices and interventions that are proven to improve care for patients with chronic disease, particularly diabetes and hypertension. Designing and implementing team-based care for those patients with chronic disease is integral to this work.
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Chronic Kidney Disease: The CKD Advisory Group supports efforts to identify CKD earlier and treat it sooner for patients who are diabetic or have hypertension.

Colorectal Cancer Screening: The Colorectal Cancer (CRC) Screening Advisory Group is looking at WCHQ data within member health systems to understand the disparities that exist for CRC screening in rural populations. The advisory group is in line with the National Colorectal Cancer Screening Round Table's goal, 80% of eligible patients screened.
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Disparities: WCHQ is leading a statewide initiative to identify and reduce disparities statewide. Health systems, in collaboration with payers and stakeholders committed to eliminating health care disparities, will work in partnership with urban and rural communities to ensure the health needs of all people are met.

Immunizations: The WCHQ Child and Adolescent Immunization Improvement Team's goal is to increase immunization rates for children and adolescents in Wisconsin. This group is working to improve immunization outcomes by understanding and addressing vaccine hesitancy and also addresses disparities among populations experiencing lower vaccination rates.

Lung Cancer Biomarker Testing: This advisory group is working with member health systems to improve the frequency and quality of biomarker testing for non-small cell lung cancer. The advisory group is working to develop a best practice workflow while providing education.
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‍Maternal Health: WCHQ members, community partners and payers work to reduce the gaps in at-risk pregnant women and their families. Populations identified as higher-risk are Black, Hispanic, Asian/Pacific Islander, American Indian, underserved, rural disadvantaged and urban disadvantaged. WCHQ will use data on known causes of maternal mortality to identify areas of improvement and work with health systems on best practices to drive improvement.
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Obesity: WCHQ has developed new initiative aimed at improving care for individuals living with obesity. This multi-year project is focused on sharing education, best practices and interventions with providers, employers and insurers. This team has developed several quality measures, with provider input, that support members in their efforts to improve care for this patient population.