Grace Bolanos Sewell, MA, CCLS, CPHQ, CPPS, Master STEPPS Trainer, is a healthcare quality improvement specialist with TMF Health Quality Institute. She currently works with hospitals, home health agencies, long-term acute care hospitals, physician practices and other health care providers to facilitate community coalitions for certain regions in Texas as part of the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization contract TMF holds with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). The community coalitions Ms. Bolanos Sewell helps to facilitate focus on reducing avoidable readmissions, strengthening coordination of care, improving immunization rates and chronic disease self-management, reducing adverse drug events and opioid misuse while improving access to behavioral health care. Ms. Bolanos Sewell has also worked at TMF on contracts with CMS focused on increasing screening for depression and alcohol use disorder in primary care practices, hospitals and inpatient psychiatric facilities (IPFs). She has also worked with these facilities to help them implement quality improvement solutions to reduce the 30-day readmission rate and increase follow-up care for discharged IPF patients. Ms. Bolanos Sewell has more than 20 years of experience focused on health care quality improvement and working in the behavioral health care field with children, adolescents and their families. She has a master’s degree in forensic psychology from the University of North Dakota.