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The Northeast Health Care Quality Foundation (NHCQF) is a non-profit, educational health care organization, headquartered in Dover, New Hampshire.

NHCQF contracts with the United States Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to serve as the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) for the states of Maine, New Hampshire, and Vermont. NHCQF also contracts with the New Hampshire Department of Health and Human Services to review hospital services provided to the Medicaid population.

Incorporated in 1972 as a professional physician association, NHCQF had as its founding purpose "to advance, promote, develop and institute patterns of the highest quality of care." NHCQF continues to pursue that purpose today through collaborative efforts with a variety of organizations and practitioners in northern New England's health care community.

NHCQF recognizes the key role of health care consumers in improving quality of care and involves them on our Board of Directors and in other NHCQF activities.

The northern New England health care community served by NHCQF includes:

	Maine	New Hampshire	Vermont
Population	1,317,207	1,315,828	621,254
Medicare Consumers	242,400	196,912	99,638
Hospitals	41	30	15
Skilled Nursing Facilities	112	83	40
Home Health Agencies	29	36	12
Physicians	3,758	3,633	3,035
Figures as of January, 2008

Northeast Health Care Quality Foundation 2008 Profile

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