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Quality Quest for Health of Illinois

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Our Mission

Our Mission is to achieve exceptional patient service and healthier communities by serving as a catalyst for healthcare transformation.

Our Vision

Our vision is to become the region with the healthiest people and the highest value healthcare.

Guiding Principles

Together We:

  • Set bold goals
  • Share openly
  • Learn from the work of others
  • Work together to achieve results
  • Respect each other's values
  • Proactively pursue progress

Our Strategy

Identify Focus: We establish priorities based on open access to understandable, shared data. We include those we serve in our decision making.

Agree on Best Care: We embrace evidence-based care standards so patient care is reliable, standardized, optimized and personalized.

Measure What Matters: We focus on results for each individual patient to measurably improve the health of the population we serve.

Create Positive Incentives: We align incentives for patients, clinicians, hospitals, employers and health plans to achieve optimal results. We mitigate perverse incentives that conflict with optimal care.

Redesign for Results: We provide patients and clinical care teams with supports to achieve best possible outcomes.

Report Results Publicly: We report performance information to clinicians and the public and compare our results to best practice. We foster a culture of transparency and accountability.




Evidence is information that is used to determine or demonstrate the truth of an assertion.  In the field of health, Evidence is collected in an orderly way to help us understand what to do.  This information can come from medical research.
Transparency is the process of collecting and reporting health care cost, performance and quality data in a format that can be accessed by the public and is intended to improve the delivery of services and ultimately improve the health care system as a whole.