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What We Do
Delmarva Foundation provides the following services in the pursuit of our mission to improve health:
Corporate Fact Sheet
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Design and Facilitate Improvements
DF designs and facilitates quality improvement projects in collaboration with hospitals, nursing homes, home care providers, doctors’ offices, and managed care plans. These services include technical assistance, collaborative improvement projects, peer-to-peer learning, training and education on best practices, and other ways for providers to learn, share, and make dramatic improvements in care.
Performance Assessment
We work with all payers assessing the performance of providers and providing assistance in improving critical healthcare services.
Data Analysis and Medical Review
DF is one of the nation’s leaders in external quality review of state Medicaid programs, ensuring that those people who are most in need of healthcare services, the poor and needy, are provided necessary services in a timely and cost-effective manner. DF also provides tremendous expertise in large-scale data analysis and medical review services.
Leadership
In the community, DF provides leadership for all stakeholders in driving an agenda for healthcare improvement and being an honest broker for the consumer.
Our Customers and Contracts
Customers |
Contracts |
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) |
Knowledge Transfer |
American Healthways |
Medicare Health Support |
California Department of Health Services |
Medicaid External Quality Review |
CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield |
STEEEP Care Regional Healthcare Improvement Initiative |
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) |
Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) for the District of Columbia and Maryland; |
Computer Sciences Corporation |
Western Integrity Center |
District of Columbia Department of Health |
Medicaid Utilization Control and External Quality Review |
Florida Agency for Health Care Administration |
Florida Statewide Quality Assurance Program |
The Lewin Group |
Medicaid and State Child Health Insurance Program |
Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene |
Medicaid External Quality Review |
Maryland Health Care Commission (MHCC) |
Hospital Public Reporting |
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation |
Rapid Response Team Collaborative |
West Virginia Department of Health and Human Resources |
Medicaid External Quality Review |
Results
Through our many projects and services, DF has a direct impact on bottom line outcomes.
Interventions Team—Transforming Healthcare: The Maryland Hospital Association (MHA) and DF, working together through the Maryland Patient Safety Center (MPSC), have decreased the rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia in Maryland ICUs by 20%, catheter-related blood stream infections by 16%, and generated cost savings in excess of $1 million.
Data Integrity Group: DF’s fraud and abuse work has saved taxpayers more than $4 million in healthcare expenses.
Health Integrity, LLC— Analysis: Health Integrity is a leader in fraud and abuse investigation for the Medicare Prescription Drug Program. They have received and processed over 3,500 complaints since November 2006 and have successfully coordinated with referrals to law enforcement on potential fraud cases.
Performance Assessment and Validation—Influence: Through reviewing performance improvement plans for delivering Medicaid services across the country, DF assesses and validates the quality of care for over 3.5 million Medicaid and vulnerable populations.
