Common use of Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement Clause in Contracts

Quality Assurance and Performance Improvement. A. The State will develop and implement a quality assurance and performance improvement system, emphasizing the use of client-level outcome tools and measures, to ensure that existing community-based services described in the Agreement are offered in accordance with the individualized transition process set forth above, and that the individuals served are provided with the State’s services and supports they need to ensure their health, safety, and welfare. The goal of the State’s system will be to ensure that all mental health and other services and supports funded by the State are of good quality and are sufficient to provide reasonable opportunities to help individuals achieve increased independence, gain greater integration into the community, obtain and maintain stable housing, avoid xxxxx, and decrease the incidence of hospital contacts and institutionalization.