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Quadruple Aim

A Conceptual Framework

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Counting Nurses With Confidence: Ensuring Accurate Data Capture for UDS and More
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Counting Nurses With Confidence: Ensuring Accurate Data Capture for UDS and More

HITEQ Center, July 2026

By documenting and measuring nursing contributions effectively, health centers can enhance the comprehensive picture of their productivity reported to UDS, strengthen funding support, and successfully promote integrated, nurse-centered care models. This resource, created by the HITEQ Center in partnership with the National Nurse-led Care Consortium, provides recommendations to ensure health centers are appropriately reflecting nursing care in UDS and, where UDS is more limited, share strategies for documenting, tracking, and measuring nursing care in other systems. It equips health centers with practical strategies to fully capture and demonstrate the impact of their nursing workforce through analyzing and redesigning workflows, implementing integrated documentation, capturing complex activities, and connecting data to financial outcomes.

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Acknowledgements

This resource collection was compiled by the HITEQ staff with portions contributed by Chris Espersen, HITEQ Advisory Committee member and Independent Contractor and Past President of Midwest Clinicians Network; Shane McBride, Independent Contractor and Past Vice President of Quality and Clinical Systems at South End Community Health Center; Chris Grasso, Associate Director for Informatics & Data Services- The Fenway Institute; and Ed Phippen, Principal - Phippen Consulting, LLC.