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Founded in 1990, the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA; http://ncqa.org) is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to improving health care quality and elevating health care quality to the top of the national agenda. NCQA is governed by an independent board composed of multiple stakeholder groups and has deemed status from CMS. NCQA develops quality standards and performance measures for a broad range of health care entities. These standards and measure are the tools that organizations and individuals can use to identify opportunities for improvement. Annual reporting of performance against such measures provides direction for improvement. NCQA collects Healthcare Effectiveness Data and Information Set data, known as HEDIS (Health Plan Employer Data and Information Set Measures), from more than 700 health plans; conducts accreditation, certification, and state plan surveys; and develops and conducts formal recognition programs, including the Primary Care Medical Home Recognition Program. No nursing organizations are included in the governance of NCQA, although nurses have been in key positions at one time or another. However, nursing organizations have actively engaged with NCQA to urge acceptance of APRNs as leaders of medical homes, so that several nurse‐led medical homes are now recognized by NCQA’s programs. Nurse faculty and others have worked with NCQA to mine relevant data regarding APRN practice and the outcomes of patients receiving care by APRNs in practice settings.