ODMRDD Quality
The National Core Indicators Are Here!
The Ohio Department of Mental Retardation and Developmental Disabilities (ODMRDD) is pleased to announce that it will adopt the National Core Indicators as a basis for measuring the performance of and improving Ohio’s MRDD service delivery system. As legislatively charged to examine the efficiency and effectiveness of the current system of separate and concurrent accreditation, licensure, certification, quality assurance and quality improvement activities and to propose changes to improve that system, the ODMRDD Futures Committee has approved the recommended adoption and implementation of the National Core Indicators beginning FY2008 (July 1, 2008- June 30, 2009).
From The National Core Indicators Website…..
“The National Core Indicators is a collaboration among participating National Association of State Directors of Developmental Disability Services (NASDDDS) member state agencies and the Human Services Research Institute (HSRI), with the goal of developing a systematic approach to performance and outcome measurement. Through the collaboration, participating states pool their resources and knowledge to create performance monitoring systems, identify common performance indicators, work out comparable data collection strategies, and share results. Many of the state agencies use NCI as a key component within their quality management systems. This multi-state collaborative effort to improve performance is unprecedented.
The aim of the initiative is to develop nationally recognized performance and outcome indicators that will enable developmental disabilities policy makers to benchmark the performance of their state against the performance of other states. National Core Indicators also enables each participating state developmental disabilities agency to track system performance and outcomes from year to year on a consistent basis”.
What Are Core Indicators?
Core Indicators are a set of performance measures that emphasize the outcomes that people with disabilities within the system desire to attain and the performance of a state to deliver those outcomes. Utilizing a variety of survey sources (consumer, family, employment, provider, mortality, incidents, system, etc), this ongoing method of assessing performance at the system level will provide useful results for stakeholders’ operations improvement efforts. In addition, the Core Indicators will provide individuals with disabilities and their families information relevant to their concerns and an assurance that the collection of this kind of data will lead to system improvement.
Next Steps……..
Over the course of the next several months, ODMRDD’s Division of Community Services will be working closely with HSRI to implement the project.
Stay tuned to the ODMRDD website for more information regarding the implementation of the National Core Indicators Project.
To read more about the National Core Indicators, go to www.hsri.org/nci/index.asp?id=home
Or contact Leslie Minnich at leslie.minnich@dmr.state.oh.us (614) 728-2518 or Kathleen Luebbert at kathleen.luebbert@dmr.state.oh.us (614) 728-2524 for more details.