MN Community Measurement is a community-based nonprofit organization dedicated to improving the quality of health care in Minnesota and surrounding border communities. Its work centers on collecting health care performance data on clinics and publicly reporting the results. The goal of this effort is to provide objective information for consumers to use in making health care decisions. Physicians are already using this information to improve the care they are delivering. This information is also used by health policy makers, employers and others who are concerned with the quality and costs of health care.

Currently MN Community Measurement reports on the quality of care for patients with diabetes in addition to a variety of other health conditions, including asthma, screening for cancer, children and women’s health, high blood pressure, and cardiovascular diseases.

MN Community Measurement is governed by a volunteer Board of Directors comprised of representatives from health care provider organizations, health plans, quality improvement organizations, health care purchasers and consumers. A committee composed of expert, local health care providers establishes the measurement topics based on local and national clinical guidelines, with input from the MN Community Measurement staff and participating health plans

Seven Minnesota nonprofit health plans and the Minnesota Medical Association founded the organization in 2005. Support through these organizations, along with contracts and grants from government agencies, large employer groups and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation provide the funding for this work.