National Quality Forum Releases Final Report from the HCBS Committee

The National Quality Forum (NQF) has released the final report from the Home and Community-Based Services (HCBS) Committee: Quality in Home and Community-Based Services to Support Community Living: Addressing Gaps in Performance Measures. Under a contract with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), NQF convened a committee to develop recommendations for prioritization of measurement opportunities. During this two-year project, the committee created a conceptual framework for measurement and an operational definition of HCBS; conducted an environmental scan for measures, concepts, and instruments; identified gaps in quality measures; and drafted recommendations for prioritization in measurement. During the project, three interim reports were released, which can be found on the NQF website. The final report includes global recommendations to improving quality measures in HCBS, the suggested measurement domains and subdomains, examples of measure concepts relevant to each subdomain, and recommendations for each domain.