Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) March 30, 2016 –– A new, freely-available smart phone application and online tool developed by an IPRO-led coalition enables clinicians to easily determine whether, when, and how to stop and restart the use of warfarin and oral anticoagulants during elective surgery and other invasive procedures…. Continue Reading
Quality Improvement Group to Address End-of-Life Care Planning on Long Island
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) January 19, 2016 –– IPRO, New York-based leader of the Atlantic Quality Improvement Network (AQIN), has received special funding from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) for the “Transforming End-of-Life Care Initiative,” a two-year project that will help inform Medicare beneficiaries and healthcare… Continue Reading
IPRO Wins Four Regional Dialysis Quality Improvement Contracts
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) December 9, 2015 – IPRO has won four regional End-Stage Renal Disease (ESRD) Network quality improvement contracts to support dialysis patients, families and providers in 13 states across the U.S. Last week the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), announced it was awarding… Continue Reading
NY Non-Profit Helps Hispanic/Latino Seniors Manage Diabetes
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) November 16, 2015 – The IPRO-led Atlantic Quality Innovation Network (AQIN), the Medicare-funded healthcare quality improvement organization for New York, is scoring major gains in enrolling Hispanic and Latino Medicare beneficiaries in free Everyone with Diabetes Counts (EDC) workshops in and around New York City…. Continue Reading
Quality Improvement Team Wins Special Funding to Address Sepsis
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