Support from the Partners in Family Medicine allows the LAFP to continue to expand the programs that support family physicians and the patients they serve.
Building on the relationship established by E. Edward Martin, Jr., MD, MS, over almost 20 years ago, the LAFP Foundation and Ochsner Health are continuing as Partners in Family Medicine for 2026!
Ochsner Health System has served Louisiana with comprehensive care for 75 Years. Ochsner Health has now evolved into Louisiana’s largest non-profit, academic, healthcare system. Driven by a mission to serve, heal, lead, educate and innovate, coordinated clinical and hospital patient care is provided across the region by Ochsner's 40 owned, managed and affiliated hospitals and specialty hospitals, and more than 100 health centers and urgent care centers.
Through our longstanding relationship with Ochsner Health, the LAFP Foundation has been able to provide exciting programing promoting the specialty of family medicine to our student members and offer networking opportunities for our resident members to meet their community colleagues.
We are excited that once again Ochsner Health is the EXCLUSIVE sponsor for the AAFP FUTURE Conference for Students and Residents! FUTURE Conference is the premiere national recruitment event for medical students. As always, the LAFP Foundation is excited to facilitate the recruitment efforts for our Louisiana family medicine residency programs.
TMF Health Quality Institute
The Southcentral CMS QIN-QIO (Region 5) has more than 40 years of experience supporting physician practices in large-scale quality improvement efforts, particularly in rural communities. Our consultants have worked with hundreds of practices to achieve and sustain each of the goals associated with different federal and state initiatives and have many years of experience with CMS quality and safety initiatives.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has led the Quality Improvement Organization Program, which is one of the largest federal programs focused on improving health care quality for people who receive Medicare. CMS has recently awarded TMF Health Quality Institute a new, five-year Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) contract as part of this program. With this latest contract award, CMS has designated TMF to work with health care organizations and providers in Arkansas, New Mexico, Louisiana, Oklahoma and Texas. CMS has named this region the Southcentral CMS QIN-QIO (Region 5).
The team in Louisiana provides no-cost, local quality improvement support to health care providers across all care settings, and to community stakeholders throughout the state. To this end, the Southcentral CMS QIN-QIO (Region 5) team in Louisiana will offer the following services to the eligible practices that participate in the QIN-QIO contract:
- Expert assistance and evidence-based strategies at no cost
- The ability to unlock a revenue stream while improving patient outcomes
- Guidance and resources about chronic care management, transitional care management, annual wellness visits and quality reporting
- Interventions tailored to care settings and providers, along with tools and resources
- CMS data dashboards and customized reports
- Free quality improvement webinars and online training
The Southcentral CMS QIN-QIO (Region5) is in the process of identifying additional practices in the state that could be recommended to CMS for eligibility approval. Please scan the QR code found below to download the outpatient clinical practice fact sheet. You may also visit the program website https://southcentralqinqio.org for more information and to download free resources. If you are interested to know more about your practice’s eligibility to participate in the program, please email
Thank you to Ochsner Health and TMF Health Quality Institute for their support as a 2026 Partner in Family Medicine!