Made up of a group of Tufts Health Plan's most senior leaders, the committee reviews and approves the Quality Improvement Work Plan, making it our official action plan. The result is a set of activities that focuses on initiatives we believe will have the most positive impact on the most members. The quality improvement process is never done. As regulatory and legislative issues challenge us, as medical and other costs spiral upward, and as we work to keep health care coverage available and affordable for members, our commitment to quality improvement remains consistent. When you put quality first, everything else falls into place.
Quality is one of the primary ways that health plans are evaluated by themselves and others.
The best health plans, like Tufts Health Plan, make quality an integral part of what they do. Our commitment to quality is the leading reason the National Committee for Quality Assurance recently awarded Tufts Health Plan its highest Excellent accreditation status. Of the hundreds of health plans NCQA evaluates nationwide, only 50 are rated so highly. Tufts Health Plan has made a commitment to the following initiatives for the year 2000. One of our quality improvement goals for 2000 is to keep our members with diabetes healthy and complication-free.