Pueblo Center

Pueblo Center named a Telligen QI Connect™ Community Quality Champion!
4/27/2021

Pueblo Center named a Telligen QI Connect™ Community Quality Champion!

Pueblo, CO - April 27, 2021 - Telligen QI Connect™ announced today that Pueblo Center, a Genesis HealthCare affiliated skilled nursing facility located in Pueblo, CO, was named a Telligen QI Connect Community Quality Champion for its work to join together with individuals and partner organizations to focus on the most challenging issues related to COVID-19 and beyond. Areas of focus include opioid misuse, increasing access to behavioral health services, ensuring smooth patient transitions with changes in level of care, patient safety, chronic disease prevention and self-care, and nursing home quality.

Telligen is a recognized leader in quality improvement and advancing population health at the local, state and federal levels. As the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for Colorado, Illinois, Iowa and Oklahoma, Telligen’s mission as a QIN-QIO is to improve the effectiveness, efficiency and value of services delivered to people with Medicare through healthcare quality improvement initiatives that increase patient safety, make communities healthier, better coordinate post-hospital care and improve healthcare quality.

Telligen QI Connect chose quality champions in local communities in Colorado, Illinois, Iowa and Oklahoma who partnered with the most organizations in their local community.  “Pueblo Center is so proud to be recognized for our pursuit of clinical excellence,” states Elizabeth Balusek, Center Executive Director of Pueblo Center. “To have partners who are aligned on so many quality initiatives drives better patient care throughout the entire healthcare continuum.”

Pueblo Center is a skilled nursing facility offering post-hospital, short-term rehabilitation as well as long-term and respite care.  Staff is dedicated to serving the medical and rehabilitation needs of individuals recovering from an illness or injury.  We accept Medicare, Medicaid, and most private insurances.  Pueblo Center is an AHCA Bronze Quality Award winner and VA contracted center! For more information, visit: www.genesishcc.com/pueblo.

About Genesis HealthCare

Genesis HealthCare is a holding company with subsidiaries that, on a combined basis, provide services to skilled nursing facilities and assisted/senior living communities. The Company also specializes in contract rehabilitation therapy, respiratory therapy, physician services, staffing services and accountable care. References made in this release to "Genesis," "the Company," "we," "us" and "our" refer to Genesis Healthcare, Inc. and each of its wholly-owned companies. Visit our website at www.genesishcc.com.

About Telligen

Telligen QI Connect™ is the Quality Innovation Network - Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for OK, CO, IL and IA.  For more than 45 years, Telligen has been transforming lives and economies by improving health. Telligen serves commercial clients and government programs at the federal, state and local level, improving health outcomes for millions of people nationwide.  We bring national expertise to you to share best practices and evidence-based interventions across the continuum of care to enhance community partnerships, improve community health outcomes, and enable you to imagine and mobilize sustainable high-quality, cutting-edge care.  Telligen can help AND we connect you with others that can help.  For more information, visit www.telligen.com and www.telligenqinqio.com.

For more information contact: lori.mayer@genesishcc.com

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