Common use of Contract Monitoring Clause in Contracts

Contract Monitoring. Once subrecipient contracts have been awarded, the recipient must manage them and regularly monitor subrecipients. The recipient must make sure that the providers who receive RWHAP Part A funds use the money according to the terms of the subrecipient contract they signed with the recipient and meet RWHAP Part A National Monitoring Standards and other federal requirements established by HRSA/HAB. The recipient monitors subrecipients to determine how quickly they spend RWHAP Part A funds, and if they are providing the contracted services, providing services only to eligible clients, using funds only as approved, and meeting reporting and other requirements. Contract monitoring is solely a recipient responsibility. The planning council receives monitoring results only by service category, not by subrecipient. QUALITY MANAGEMENT, QUALITY ASSURANCE, AND QUALITY IMPROVEMENT Clinical Quality Management is the coordination of activities aimed at improving patient care, health outcomes, and pa- tient satisfaction, as described in this section. Quality Assurance refers to ac- tivities aimed at ensuring com- pliance with minimum quality standards. Quality assurance activities include the process of looking back to measure com- pliance with standards (e.g., HHS guidelines, professional guidelines, service standards). Site visits and chart reviews are examples of commonly used quality assurance activities. Quality Improvement is a part of CQM. It uses CQM xxxxxr- mance data as well as data col- lected as part of quality assur- ance processes to strengthen patient care, health outcomes, and patient satisfaction. The recipient must keep track of how rapidly RWHAP Part A money is, or isn’t, being spent. If funds are not being spent in a timely fashion, there are two options: