Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) October 14, 2015 ––A Medicare quality improvement network has secured special funding from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to improve early identification and treatment of sepsis, a life-threatening inflammatory response to infections, which kills 250,000 Americans each year. The Atlantic Quality Innovation… Continue Reading
IPRO’s ESRD NCC Wins National Patient Engagement and Advocacy Award
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) September 28, 2015 – IPRO’s End Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) National Coordinating Center (NCC) is the first organizational recipient of the American Association of Kidney Patients’ (AAKPs’) Patient Engagement and Advocacy Award, which recognizes leadership and excellence in the field of patient education and outreach. … Continue Reading
IPRO Announces 2015 Quality Award Winners
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org Lake Success, N.Y – June 2, 2015 – Two upstate hospitals and five nursing homes are winners of IPRO’s 2015 Quality Awards, to be presented June 2nd at the organization’s 31st Annual Meeting at the LaGuardia Marriott Hotel in East Elmhurst, NY. A not-for-profit organization, IPRO is funded… Continue Reading
IPRO Taking Over Major Hospital Performance Database
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org Lake Success, NY – January 26, 2015 – IPRO, a leading nonprofit healthcare quality improvement and evaluation organization, has taken over from The Commonwealth Fund a major online resource for measuring the performance of 5,723 hospitals in the U.S. Created by IPRO in 2008 for The Commonwealth Fund,… Continue Reading
IPRO Team Creates Drug Safety Tool For Care Transitions, Cites Improved Communications Regarding High Risk Medications
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org Lake Success, NY – October 22, 2014 Pharmacy quality improvement experts at IPRO have created and field tested a unique audit tool aimed at reducing anticoagulant-related adverse drug events (ADEs) during care transitions. National estimates suggest that ADEs account for 700,000 emergency department visits and 120,000 hospitalizations annually,… Continue Reading
IPRO-Led Interventions Have Helped Improve Healthcare Quality For New York’s Medicare Beneficiaries
Newly Published Report Documents Improvements Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. – September 4, 2014 – Recent enhancements in healthcare quality for New York’s Medicare beneficiaries are detailed in IPRO’s new Medicare Quality Improvement Report. The report covers clinical areas in which the state’s healthcare providers have worked with IPRO, Medicare… Continue Reading
IPRO Wins Regional Medicare Quality Innovation Contract
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) IPRO has won an historic, five-year award as the Medicare-funded Quality Innovation Network (QIN) contractor for the states of New York and South Carolina and for the District of Columbia. Under a new arrangement that begins August 1, state-based Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) will be replaced by… Continue Reading
Healthcare Providers Receive 2014 IPRO Quality Awards
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org Awards Presented at 30th Annual Meeting (Lake Success, NY – June 3, 2014) – Eight individual New York healthcare providers and groups of providers – including all 11 hospitals of New York City’s Health and Hospitals Corporation, which worked to reduce hospital-acquired infections, and one group of 28… Continue Reading
Twenty-Eight Albany – Area Healthcare Organizations Receive 2014 IPRO Quality Awards
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org Recognized for Lowering Medicare Beneficiaries’ Hospital Readmissions (Lake Success, NY – May 22, 2014) – Twenty-eight Capital District region healthcare organizations have been named recipients of 2014 IPRO Quality Awards. The awards, given annually by IPRO, recognize organizations and professionals that demonstrate a commitment to improving the quality… Continue Reading
Unique New Tool Provides “Snapshot” of Anticoagulation Management Strategies During Invasive Medical Procedures
Contact: Dennis Tartaglia (732) 545-1848 dtartaglia@tartagliacommunications.com Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org IPRO-designed “MAP” Tool Addresses How to Handle Numerous Patient Situations, In Order to Reduce Risk of Both Excessive Bleeding and Formation of Blood Clots LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. – May 13, 2014 – A new, free-of-charge tool designed by the Peri-Procedural Task Force of… Continue Reading