World Sepsis Day – Wednesday, September 13, 2017 Please join us in shining a light on sepsis and promoting sepsis awareness! The Rory Staunton Foundation has produced a stunning new animated video, Sepsis: What You Need to Know to Save a Life
NQF Endorses IPRO-Supported Sepsis Measure
The Washington DC-based National Quality Forum has officially endorsed a sepsis mortality measure developed by IPRO and the New York State Department of Health. The risk adjusted measure is used to calculate hospital mortality rates for adult patients with a diagnosis of severe sepsis or septic shock. The endorsement follows a landmark, IPRO-supported hospital performance… Continue Reading
CCME Presents Annual Diabetic Foot Exam Demonstration
Annual Diabetic Foot Exam Demonstration, June 2017 Sarah P. Smith, Certified Diabetes Educator, Atlantic QIN-SC This video highlights the need for primary healthcare practitioners to conduct foot exams for patients with diabetes and demonstrates three components that should be included in every foot exam. The recommendations outlined in the video are based on the 2017… Continue Reading
Feds Credit QIO Interventions
A newly issued 2016 QIO Program Progress Report from the U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) highlights the impact the regional Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIOs) are having working with hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, physicians and other providers to meet or exceed specific government-issued quality improvement targets. Formerly state-based, these… Continue Reading
NY Launches Online Provider Search Tool
Consumers who want to learn which providers participate in which health plans now have an online tool to quickly help them with their research. The NYS Provider & Health Plan Look-Up includes information on physicians and hospitals that participate in the New York State of Health Marketplace, including Qualified Health Plans, the Essential Plan, Child… Continue Reading
IPRO Presents Healthcare Quality Awards
Eight New York healthcare professionals, providers, health policy groups and social service organizations have been named recipients of the 2017 IPRO Quality Awards. The awards, given annually by IPRO, recognize organizations and professionals that demonstrate a commitment to improving the quality of care provided to New York’s Medicare beneficiaries. The awards were given during IPRO’s… Continue Reading
Sepsis Protocols Linked to Reduced Mortality
Timely completion of a 3-hour bundle of sepsis treatments and early administration of antibiotics are associated with reduced risk-adjusted in-hospital mortality, according to a New York State Department of Health study published this spring in The New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM). Co-authored by IPRO Senior Director Kathleen M. Terry, Ph.D., the study examined whether… Continue Reading
Trade Group Lauds Nursing Home Safety Initiative
The nation’s fourteen regional Quality Innovation Network-Quality Improvement Organizations (QIN-QIOs) have reached an important goal of enrolling 2,336 nursing homes in the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) National Healthcare Safety Network (NHSN), according to the QIN-QIO trade association. The NHSN is the most widely used healthcare-associated infection tracking system in the US. It is currently… Continue Reading
IPRO Supporting End-of-Life Planning on Long Island
IPRO is teaming with county health officials and a national expert to educate NewYork seniors and families about the benefits of end-of-life planning. Under a two-year Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) funded initiative in Nassau and Suffolk counties, IPRO is conducting outreach and providing educational sessions for seniors, their families and caregivers to… Continue Reading
Study Tracks Diabetes-Related Amputation Rates
Lower extremity amputation rates related to diabetes have been gradually increasing each year since 2009, according to a new report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) Quality Innovation Network National Coordinating Center (QIN NCC). The data, gathered from Medicare fee-for-service beneficiaries between July 1, 2015 and June 30, 2016, found that of… Continue Reading