Quality Health Network

“The Organization amended its bylaws to allow Marillac Clinic, Inc. to appoint a member of the Marillac Clinic, Inc. Board of Directors to serve on the Board of Directors of the Organization.”

“The board consists of eight members. There are five tax exempt non-profit entities represented on the board and one taxable nonprofit entity. Each entity chooses a member to serve on the board. Two members are at large. All members of the board elect the two members at large.”

“A copy of form 990 is provided to each board member before its' filing. Each board member is given an opportunity to comment on the 990 and ask questions before it is filed.”

“Conflict of interest disclosure statements are reviewed by the Executive Director and legal counsel. All Board members, officers and key employees are covered under the policy. Before each Board meeting legal counsel and the Executive Director review the agenda and determine if there is a conflict of interest potential for each board action item and during each board meeting legal counsel and the Executive Director are present to do the same. If there is a potential for a conflict, legal counsel advises the Board and the Board acts in accordance with its' conflict of interest policy. If someone has a conflict that person cannot participate in the deliberations or decision on the transaction.”

“Line 15a: The process is used for Executive Director (who is the top management official) compensation. The Board Chair, Board Vice Chair and Treasurer meet to determine the compensation amount relying on data of compensation rates for executives involved in health care in the Mesa County area. Their determination is documented contemporaneously in e-mail exchanges. Line 15b: The Organization used a compensation survey and a third party consultant to review salaries of several key positions including officers.”

“No requests for these documents have been received. However, if such a request were made, we would provide a copy of these documents to the extent required by applicable law for 501(c)(3) organizations.”

“Managing a patient's care across all care settings is the cornerstone of the new Medicaid and Medicare payment models. QHN is providing alerts to the three FQHCs in our service area to support this quality improvement and cost containment work and help reduce the burden on these government programs. Funding Sources: QHN continues to leverage the investments made by multiple granting sources, past and present, to support the work required to build the technology infrastructure and robust data warehousing essential for the advanced analytics and data needs of new care and payment models. In 2015 QHN began work with the Colorado Department of Health Care Policy and Financing (HCPF) on four separate grant opportunities: (1) the Colorado Care Connections Program (90/10), which supports the expansion of, and enhancement of, health IT for Medicaid providers; (2) The Colorado Advanced Interoperability Initiative (CAII) which has three focus areas, support HIEs acquisition of ambulatory encounter data, the acquisition of CCDs from long-term care and pilots for the exchange of real-time behavioral health information via HIE; (3) the State Innovation Model (SIM) initiative the scope of this work is yet to be fully defined; and (4) the Testing Experience and Functional Tools (TEFT) grant which is designed to demonstrate the use of Personal Health Record (PHR) within the targeted populations of the intellectually and developmentally disabled, elderly, blind and disabled and identify and evaluate an electronic long-term services and supports (e-LTSS) standard in conjunction with the Office of the National Coordinator (ONC). These investments have allowed QHN to increase and enhance connectivity with Medicare providers, expand acquistion of ambulatory data, including data from behavioral health and long-term care providers to enrich the data repository in support of the common vision of improving outcomes for all patients in western Colorado. The collective impact of these acquisitions, and the practice transformation work they support, has been instrumental in the evolution of the healthcare delivery system of western Colorado.”

“Change in temporarily restricted funds -9,599.”