Mountain-Pacific Quality Health Foundation

Under contract with the centers for medicare & medicaid services (cms), mountain pacific works with nursing homes in montana, wyoming, alaska, hawaii and the u.s. Pacific territories of guam, american samoa and saipan. Our goal is to help nursing homes across our region provide safe, person-centered care for their residents. During fiscal year 2024, mountain pacific's account managers provided more than 1,044 targeted assistance encounters to nursing homes, supporting them in a range of critical areas such as infection control, vaccinations, quality of care and narcotic diversion. Mountain pacific promotes community well-being and improved population health by addressing the social, cultural, economic and environmental factors that impact individuals' overall health. Through partnerships at federal, state and community levels, we work beyond the walls of health care facilities to support both physical and behavioral health services. Under our federal contract with cms, we have facilitated twenty-four health care coalitions across our region, focusing on improving access to services, care transitions and patient safety, while implementing pain management and opioid use best practices.

Under contract with the centers for disease control and prevention (cdc), we partner with various health care settings in alaska, hawaii and wyoming so frontline health care workers can learn and apply infection prevention protocols. This national collaborative, called project firstline, aims to provide innovative, effective infection control training to millions of frontline health care workers across the u.s. Under state and federal contracts, mountain pacific partners with quality improvement peers, state and tribal agencies and advocates, health care professionals, community leaders and members and others to support improved health and access to care services for indigenous populations.working closely with the centers for medicare & medicaid services (cms) and indian health service (ihs), the partnership to advance tribal health (path) partners with cms-certified, ihs-managed hospitals to improve health care quality for american indian and alaska native (aian) populations. Mountain pacific is part of a multi-state collaborative of quality improvement organizations that work together to increase patient safety; improve behavioral health outcomes, especially around opioid adverse events; increase quality of care transitions; and respond to public health emergencies as directed by cms and sustain compliance, ensuring continuous accreditation, a comprehensive quality program and infection reporting.montana infant and early childhood mental health consultation (iecmhc) is a prevention-based approach that pairs trained mental health professionals with adults who work with infants and young children in different settings where they learn and grow. In the fall of 2024, mountain pacific helped launch a montana-specific education program that includes lessons learned from previous iecmhc models and adapts to the state's unique geography, population and systems. Consultants build relationships with the adults in young children's lives to increase the capacity in those adults to support children's healthy social-emotional development before formal intervention is needed. The montana certification criteria will unify the workforce and be supported by infrastructure supported through mountain pacific, including mentoring, communities of practice and peer networking and support.