About QHi

The Quality Health Indicator (QHi) web site was developed through the Kansas Rural Health Options Project (KRHOP), a partnership between the Kansas Department of Health and Environment Office of Local and Rural Health, the Kansas Hospital Association, the Kansas Board of Emergency Medical Services, and the Kansas Medical Society. KRHOP supports Critical Access Hospitals in Kansas through the Medicare Rural Hospital Flexibility grant program. The website is managed by the Kansas Hospital Association, and was designed to facilitate quality and performance benchmarking among Kansas' rural hospitals.

In 2005, the Multi State Benchmarking Project selected QHi as their data collection tool. The Multi State Project currently involves Critical Access Hospitals in Kansas, Michigan, Montana and Nebraska, and additional states will be joining the project prior to the end of 2006. The goal of QHi is to provide hospitals a user-friendly, inexpensive instrument to evaluate internal processes of care and to compare their performance to similar "peer group" facilities, so as to be able to seek ways to improve key organizational processes. Comparisons can be made on clinical quality measures, employee engagement and satisfaction, patient satisfaction, and financial and operating statistics. The Multi State Benchmarking Project is well positioned to serve as a significant repository of information on quality of care and performance in Critical Access Hospitals, and the use of QHi will facilitate the expansion of this project to other states.

This project is funded by a Rural Hospital Flexibility Grant (Grant No. 5 H54 RH 00009-03) to the Kansas Department of Health and Environment Office of Local and Rural Health from the Health Resources and Services Administration Office of Rural Health Policy.

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