Mission

The C4QI consortium seeks to improve the quality of care for all cancer patients by identifying and promoting best practices that provide optimal clinical outcomes and patient satisfaction.

Vision

To be recognized as the National collaborative partnership leader for shaping the future of cancer care through the promotion and delivery of high quality and safe patient experience and outcomes.

Strategy

Develop a comprehensive database to establish system and institutional performance on key quality & patient safety metrics that target improvement opportunities
- Database quality indicators may also include measures that are under consideration for reporting by CMS and other organizations
Participate in multi-centered process improvement projects
Provide opportunities to improve the care and safety of patients with data-driven best practices
Establish relationships with other national organizations related to quality improvement and patient safety (e.g., NQF) and with specialist groups (e.g., ADCC)

About Us
The Consortium of Comprehensive Cancer Centers for Quality Improvement (C4QI) was begun in 1997 impart as a response to The Joint Commission (TJC) mandate to benchmark quality data.
Administrators from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Roswell Park Cancer Center, MD Anderson Cancer Center, Dana Farber Cancer Center and Fred Hutchinson – Seattle Care Cancer Alliance drafted an RFP to select a vendor for the JC ORYX non-core measure initiative.
Thus laying the groundwork for comparing outcomes of care and processes with one another.
From this beginning, the group has grown to currently include representation from eleven (11) exempt cancer centers and seven (7) non-exempt centers to provide valuable learning and sharing opportunities.
Activities
Monthly conference calls are hosted by the Chair and Vice Chair. The C4QI membership meets semi-annually at rotating member organizations. The C4QI Membership SharePoint website allows us to communicate quickly and effectively and to announce the posting of queries that is monitored in a secured, password-protected environment. We are dedicated to providing leadership and information to our individual organizations as we strive to reach our unique quality improvement goals and to supporting the quality related goals of the collective as well.
Major Projects:
PressGaney Patient Satisfaction Measurement: Oncology-specific outpatient survey results
C4QI Database Initiative with UHC: Transparent measure reporting starting with CMS required 19 measures for future public reporting.
Readmissions Project: To create readmission metrics applicable to oncology specific centers in anticipation of future CMS requirements
Patient Experience Project: Sharing and development of patient experience tools to provide best practices to create/bolster improvement projects
Participating Centers
Participating organizations are NCI-designated Comprehensive Cancer Centers, members of the National Cancer Center Network, or has a federally granted prospective payment system exempt status in oncology. All centers are not-for-profit organizations.
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