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CQL publishes Cross-Walk between CQL’s Quality Measures 2005® and CMS Quality Framework

CQL proudly offers this Cross-Walk as a link between CQL’s new Quality Measures 2005 ^® and The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality Framework for Home and Community Based Services (HCBS). This Cross-Walk is intended to help align the Quality Framework with valid and reliable strategies for gathering and reporting data and evidence.

Designed to help align the CMS Home and Community Based Services (HCBS) Quality Framework* with valid, reliable strategies for gathering and reporting data and presenting evidence, CQL’s Cross-Walk is based upon the core values and principles of dignity, opportunity, and community inclusion. It combines CQL’s person-centered approach to high quality definition and measurement with assurances of health, safety and human security along with the lessons of social capital and community assessment.

As James F. Gardner, Ph.D., CQL’s President and CEO, expresses it, “Every organization needs to become an integrated part of the world around it in order to provide the optimum setting for facilitating personal quality of life.” CQL’s Cross-Walk improves the link between government agencies and community service providers.

The Cross-Walk clearly demonstrates how CQL’s Quality Measures 2005 ^® provide an integrated approach to quality management.

CQL works constantly to promote protections in health, welfare, safety, and the rights of people with intellectual disabilities and people with mental illness. We provide services in monitoring, evaluation technical assistance, and investigation to state regulatory and administrative bodies, parties to judicial action, as well as service providers. Our system of Basic Assurances ^® is used by states, large provider systems, and individual organizations with an interest in ensuring that people remain safe and healthy.

*The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services Quality Framework for Home and Community-Based Services