About Health Care Quality Programs

IFMC is a leader in innovative solutions impacting health care quality. Teams of health care professionals, quality improvement specialists, statisticians, communicators and others create new and better ways to:

• Capture, manage and report clinical performance information
• Develop and disseminate quality improvement programs and tools for individual clients
• Provide technical assistance to organizations working to improve the quality of care
• Be an agent for change management

We take pride in our ability to work together with health care professionals, consumers, employers, payers and others to reach our goals. Our experience in facilitating quality improvement helps health care organizations, businesses and consumers throughout the nation receive better health care.

The Iowa Foundation for Medical Care has served as Iowa’s Medicare quality improvement organization since 1972. In addition, IFMC provides quality improvement solutions for a growing number of private, federal and state government clients, including the Iowa Medicaid Enterprise.

Located in West Des Moines, IFMC staff members include physicians, nurses, pharmacists, quality improvement experts, information technology specialists and data analysts.