Quality Watch, formerly a printed IPRO newsletter focusing on healthcare policy and corporate initiatives, has been re-launched as a monthly podcast. Within each 20-minute episode will be highlights of federal and state policy changes, company news, an interview with a healthcare quality improvement expert, and Data Watch, a brief look at newsworthy healthcare data points…. Continue Reading
NY State Addressing Maternal Mortality Disparities
New York State will create a Maternal Mortality Review Board and develop racial bias training and education programs for hospitals, based on a series of recommendations provided by a State Task Force to Governor Andrew Cuomo on March 12. The report finds that New York ranks 30th in the nation in maternal mortality, with an… Continue Reading
IPRO Partner Addresses Infections in LTC Settings
IPRO’s Medicare Quality Improvement subcontractor, The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence (CCME), was selected for a poster presentation at the annual conference of The Society for Post-Acute and Long-Term Care Medicine, held in Atlanta in early March. The presentation focused on nutritional pathway educational tools developed to raise awareness about care and treatment of clostridiodes… Continue Reading
Join us for the IPRO 35th Annual Meeting and Quality Awards Presentation
Social Determinants of Health and their Impact on Communities Featured Speaker: Andrew Croshaw, CEO of Leavitt Partners Thursday, June 6, 2019 12: 30 pm – 3:00 PM Complimentary Buffet Luncheon Garden City Hotel Garden City. NY Convenient to the Long Island Rail Road (Garden City Station on the Hempstead Branch) Limited seating – Reserve your… Continue Reading
Feds Revising Hospital Performance Data Methodology
Stakeholders had until March 29 to offer written comments to the federal government regarding revisions to the current methodology for public reporting of comparative hospital performance data. The call for comment follows a decision by the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) to postpone a release of hospital performance information, which was scheduled… Continue Reading
IPRO Examines Opioid Epidemic
Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations like IPRO have been given a major role in federal efforts to address the nation’s opioid epidemic. An estimated 42,000 Americans were killed by opioids in 2016 with 40% of all opioid deaths involving prescription opioids. Under comprehensive legislation passed last fall – The REACH OUT ACT of 2018 –… Continue Reading
National Policy Expert to Address IPRO Annual Meeting
Leavitt Partners Chief Executive Officer Andrew Croshaw will be a featured speaker at IPRO’s 35th Annual Meeting, scheduled for Thursday, June 6, at the Garden City Hotel in Garden City, New York. Croshaw joined the Salt Lake City-based firm at its inception in 2009 – the firm’s founder is former Secretary of the U.S. Department… Continue Reading
IPRO Pharmacy Expert Co-Authors Journal Article
IPRO Quality Improvement Pharmacist Teresa Lubowski, Pharm. D., is the co-author of a new journal article that examines antibiotic selection and antimicrobial resistance among therapies used to treat acute uncomplicated cystitis in outpatient settings across New York State. Among the conclusions is the finding that providers shouldn’t rely on overall antimicrobial susceptibility percentages when selecting… Continue Reading
Newsday Names IPRO a Top Workplace
IPRO has been awarded a 2018 Top Workplace honor by Newsday. The award is based solely on employee feedback gathered through an independent third-party survey administrator. The anonymous survey measures several aspects of workplace culture, including alignment, execution, and connection, just to name a few. IPRO was ranked #8 out of 17 midsize Long Island… Continue Reading
Annual Meeting Highlights Quality Award Winners
Eleven New York health professionals, healthcare organizations, consumer advocates and community-based organizations were recognized with IPRO’s 2018 Quality Awards—presented at IPRO’s 34th Annual Meeting, June 5, 2018 at the Garden City Hotel in Garden City. Awards were given for accomplishments on a range of quality-related initiatives: Data Longjohn, MD Skope Medical Care, P.C. Wyandanch Implementing… Continue Reading