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Network 11 Goals and Objectives

GOAL A: Maintain a Network organization to serve the End Stage Renal Disease community in the Upper Midwest.

  1. Maintain Network Council memberships.
  2. Elect and coordinate activities of the Executive, Finance, and medical Review committees.
  3. Organize an Annual Council Meeting.
  4. Maintain a Network 11 directory.
  5. Serve as a clearinghouse for ESRD information.
  6. Participate in the Forum of End Stage Renal Disease Networks.
  7. Manage organizational affairs including personnel, finances, office management, Council affairs, and relations with the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA).
  8. Maintain publications and memberships in related agencies.
  9. Update bylaws as needed.
  10. Publish Network 11 News.

GOAL B: Encourage home dialysis and transplantation, when medically indicated.

  1. Set and monitor Network goals for home/self-care dialysis and transplantation.
  2. Cooperate with related agencies to promote awareness about organ donation and transplantation.

GOAL C: Encourage vocational rehabilitation.

  1. Tabulate employment and vocational rehabilitation data.
  2. Maintain support group listings.
  3. Publish articles on rehabilitation in Common Concerns.

GOAL D: Evaluate patient care using criteria and standards relating to the quality and appropriateness of care.

  1. Analyze facility-specific first-year patient and graft survival data for transplant recipients.
  2. Analyze facility-specific standardized mortality ratios for patients on dialysis.
  3. Perform Quality Improvement Projects.

GOAL E: Conduct quality improvement activities.

  1. Monitor and report providers' compliance with Network goals and activities.
  2. Conduce on-site visits as necessary.
  3. Coordinate with Medicare surveyors.
  4. Collect Centers for Disease Control's Survey on Hepatitis and Other Infectious Diseases from Network 11 facilities.
  5. Confirm ESRD appropriateness (2728 review).

GOAL F: Assure patient access to care.

  1. Facilitate patient transfers for ESRD services.
  2. Promote equitable access for ESRD services.

GOAL G: Implement procedures to resolve patient grievances.

  1. Address patient concerns related to quality of care, access to ESRD services, and rehabilitation.
  2. Respond to patient grievances according to HCFA Patient Grievance Policies.

GOAL H: Encourage patient participation.

  1. Elect and coordinate activities of the Consumer Committee.
  2. Manage the quarterly newsletter, Common Concerns.
  3. Prepare and mail orientation information to new ESRD patients.

GOAL I: Maintain, safeguard, and use patient registry to report ESRD program trends and trends in morbidity and mortality.

  1. Respond to requests for data and information.
  2. Obtain, validate, process, submit, correct, and file HCFA forms.
  3. Work with HCFA and on transplant and transplant follow-up data.
  4. Process monthly rosters for dialysis patients and quarterly lists of new transplant recipients.
  5. Prepare and transmit data forms to the national registry.
  6. Monitor data compliance.
  7. Process facility surveys.
  8. Upgrade hardware and software as needed.
  9. Back up data and preserve confidentiality.
  10. Participate in the Standardized Information Management System (SIMS).

GOAL J: Contribute to national ESRD program priorities.

  1. Administer the contracts that Network 11 ahs with HCFA and others.
  2. Prepare an Annual Report for HCFA and other interested parties.
  3. Participate in the Anemia, Clinical Performance Measures, and other national studies.

GOAL K: Continue to conservatively manage finances ensuring stability to support the goals above.

  1. Review and update finance policies.
  2. Follow finance management guidelines.

GOAL L: Assure that outcomes are comparable to expected outcomes as defined by currently accepted standards of care.

Approved by the Executive Committee on 9/24/98, revised 6/2000.