Atlantic Quality Innovation Network (AQIN), the IPRO-led Medicare quality improvement network for New York is scoring major gains in recruiting Hispanic and Latino Medicare beneficiaries for Everyone with Diabetes Counts (EDC) workshops in and around New York City. A major facet of this success has been recruitment of seniors in need, via a partnership with… Continue Reading
New York Re-Launches Online Provider Profiles
The New York State Department of Health has completed its re-launch of its online nursing home, home care, and hospice profiles within the Health Profiles Website. That site, located at http://profiles.health.ny.gov, is maintained within the State Health Department’s public website, and is a consumer-oriented portal providing centralized access to health care information in four areas:… Continue Reading
Webinar on December 9, 2015—Panel Discussion: Lessons Learned in Using the AHRQ QIs to Improve the Quality and Safety of Care
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) would like to invite you to join a panel discussion about the AHRQ Quality Indicators (QIs)—standardized, evidence-based quality measures that you can use with readily available hospital inpatient administrative data to measure and track clinical performance and outcomes, including inpatient mortality, surgical complications, and certain hospital-acquired infections…. Continue Reading
Quality Network Initiates Sepsis Campaign
Atlantic Quality Innovation Network (AQIN) members IPRO and The Carolinas Center for Medical Excellence are undertaking a two-year project aimed at improving early identification and management of sepsis – a life-threatening, whole-body inflammatory response to infections, which kills 250,000 Americans each year. The AQIN project will focus on community-based providers (home health staff, nursing home… Continue Reading
IPRO’s ESRD NCC Wins Advocacy Award
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 in the field of patient education and outreach. AAKP presented the award to IPRO’s ESRD NCC for the work performed by the National Patient… Continue Reading
Feds Announce Sepsis Coalition Town Hall Meetings
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced a fall program to increase awareness of sepsis and to facilitate a national conversation aimed at developing interventions that will lead to a decrease in sepsis morbidity and mortality rates. Applicable to staff in long-term care facilities as well as other caregivers, presentations will address… Continue Reading
Trade Group Promotes Chronic Care Innovation
The dramatic increase in the number of Americans between the ages of 45 and 64 who will soon be aging into Medicare—many of them with multiple, chronic conditions—will require widespread adoption of innovative care management strategies, according to written comments submitted in June to the U.S. Senate Finance Committee, by the American Health Quality Association… Continue Reading
National QIO Learning Series Announced
The QIO Program is launching a new learning series that offers health care providers the opportunity to participate in national virtual training events focused on health care quality improvement. The series, titled “Sharing Knowledge, Improving Health Care,” will feature training sessions led by recognized experts and will address important topics in health care delivery transformation… Continue Reading
IPRO Care Transitions Team Documents Success
IPRO authors have written another article showing significant reductions in hospital readmission rates following implementation of a community-based care transitions program. The article profiles an Albany NY-area effort involving one acute care hospital, 28 skilled nursing facilities, a home health agency and a hospice provider. The authors document significant reductions in all-cause 30-day readmission rates… Continue Reading
Authors Cite Better Health, Lower Costs
Researchers are documenting substantial reductions in Medicare hospitalizations, mortality and costs over a fifteen year period, based on a review of 68 million admissions of fee-for-service Medicare patients across the U.S. For 2013 compared to 1999, hospitalizations were found to have fallen by 24% and costs were judged to have fallen by 15%. And risk… Continue Reading