Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org – An advance screening of the patient safety documentary To Err Is Human, hosted by The New York Academy of Medicine, United Hospital Fund and IPRO. The film addresses the silent epidemic of medical mistakes – the #3 leading cause of death in the U.S. with up to… Continue Reading
IPRO’s Atlantic Quality Innovation Network Featured in 2017 QIO Program Progress Report
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y. – Oct. 18, 2018 /PRNewswire/ – IPRO’s AtIantic Quality Innovation Network (AQIN), the Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for New York, South Carolina and the District of Columbia, is proud to announce that it is featured in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services‘ (CMS’) newly released 2017 QIO Program Progress Report. AQIN… Continue Reading
IPRO-Led Panel Reports Consensus on Anticoagulation Management
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org September 3, 2018. Lake Success, NY. – An IPRO-led multi-disciplinary panel has reached consensus on essential anticoagulation management elements that need to be communicated to downstream providers upon transition between all health care settings. According to the authors of a new article in The Joint Commission Journal on… Continue Reading
IPRO Awarded Measure & Instrument Development and Support (MIDS) Umbrella Contract
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org LAKE SUCCESS, NY – August 28, 2018 – IPRO is the recipient of a 10-year federal healthcare quality measurement contract that will permit the organization to bid on individual task orders developed by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The Measure and Instrument Development and Support (MIDS) contract… Continue Reading
Eleven Individuals and Organizations Receive IPRO Quality Awards
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org Awards Given During IPRO’s 34th Annual Meeting (Lake Success, NY – June 13, 2018) – Eleven New York health professionals, healthcare organizations, consumer advocates and community-based organizations have been recognized with IPRO’s 2018 Quality Awards. The awards were given at IPRO’s 34th Annual Meeting, June 5, 2018 at… Continue Reading
IPRO Renews NJ Medicaid Quality Improvement Contract
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org – (Lake Success, NY) – IPRO has obtained a four-year renewal of a contract that provides independent quality improvement services to support New Jersey’s oversight of five managed care plans responsible for delivering healthcare to 1.7 million Medicaid members across the state. Under federal law, states enrolling Medicaid… Continue Reading
IPRO Wins Innovation Contracts Aimed at Opioid Prescribing, Kidney Disease
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org – (Lake Success, NY) October 17, 2017 – The IPRO-led Atlantic Quality Innovation Network (AQIN) has been awarded special federal funding to address opioid prescribing and kidney disease management. The two multi-year Medicare Special Innovation Projects are funded by the U.S. Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, as… Continue Reading
Nationally-Recognized Policy Experts Join IPRO
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5296 psboyce@ipro.org Lake Success, N.Y., August 30, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ — Two senior-level federal and state health policy experts have joined IPRO’s management team. Patricia (`Patti’) Simino Boyce, Ph.D., RN, comes to IPRO from the CMS Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation, where she provided strategic guidance and technical expertise in quality improvement,… Continue Reading
Atlantic Quality Innovation Network Featured in 2016 QIO Program Progress Report
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., June 7, 2017– The Atlantic Quality Innovation Network (AQIN), the IPRO-led Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for New York, South Carolina and the District of Columbia, is proud to announce that it is featured in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) newly… Continue Reading
Health Commissioner Tomarken Signs “National Healthcare Decisions Days” Proclamation to Focus Attention on End-of-Life Care Planning Discussions
Contact: Patricia Simino Boyce (516) 209-5294 psboyce@ipro.org (Lake Success, NY) – April 19, 2017 – At today’s Suffolk County Board of Health meeting, Health Commissioner James L. Tomarken, MD, MPH, MBA, MSW, signed a proclamation declaring the week of April 16 “National Healthcare Decision Days” in the county, presenting the proclamation to end-of-life care expert… Continue Reading