National Quality Forum

Membership: the national quality forum is a organization that brings together diverse organizations and individuals from across the country dedicated to improving health and healthcare through quality measurement. Comprised of more than 3,000 individuals who are part of more than 150 member organizations, nqf members are an active community of patients, caregivers, hospitals, healthcare systems, clinicians, payers, and employers who come together to advance the next generation of measures, methods, and practices and scale their implementation to achieve better healthcare outcomes for all. Nqf is the leading source of learning and knowledge for the quality measurement community and provides resources, education, and ideas to advance the mission of driving measurable health improvement together. Nqf provides its members with the platform to share their time and expertise to provide input on issues of national importance and to learn from and collaborate with each other.

Shared services: national quality forum provides common management services, referred to as shared services fees, of the activities carried on for related organizations. See schedule r for list of related organizations.