An inner-city medical center, an upstate group practice and the nation’s largest public healthcare delivery systems are all winners of this year’s IPRO Quality Awards, which were announced at IPRO’s 32nd Annual Meeting, held June 7, 2016 at the LaGuardia Marriott Hotel in East Elmhurst, New York. The Queens Hospital Center of Jamaica, New York… Continue Reading
IPRO’s Clare Bradley chosen as President-Elect of AHQA
Please congratulate IPRO Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President Clare Bradley, MD, MPH, who has been chosen President-Elect of the American Health Quality Association (AHQA). Voting for a new slate of officers of AHQA took place at the organization’s Quality Summit held June 2 in Baltimore. AHQA is a trade association representing quality improvement professionals… Continue Reading
Study Supports “Aging in Place” for Seniors
Home health agency-provided services in the home can delay admissions to skilled nursing facilities by as much as eight months, according to new research from a team at the SUNY Albany School of Public Health. Researchers examined the extent to which comprehensive Certified Home Health Agency-provided (CHHA-provided) home health services—otherwise known as “Aging in Place”… Continue Reading
Early Results In on NY ‘Surprise Billing Law’
The landmark New York “Surprise Billing” law that went into effect last spring was intended to protect insured hospital patients from out-of-network co-payments, coinsurance and deductibles larger than charges for comparable in-network ancillary emergency services. The new law also protects insured New Yorkers from surprise balance billings for outpatient services as well, if they sign… Continue Reading
IPRO Anticoagulation Tool Now Available
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. Creators of this unique app, known as “MAPPP” (Management of Anticoagulation in the… Continue Reading
Quality Experts to Address IPRO Annual Meeting
Nationally recognized healthcare quality experts Mandy Cohen, MD, MPH and John Black are featured speakers at IPRO’s 32nd Annual Meeting, to be held Tuesday, June 7 at the New York LaGuardia Airport Marriott Hotel in East Elmhurst, NY. Dr. Cohen, an internist, is the Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff for the Centers for… Continue Reading
IPRO Senior Manager Appointed to Quality Panel
IPRO Vice President Edison (“Eddie”) Machado, Jr., MD, MBA has been chosen by the Washington DC-based National Quality Forum (NQF), to serve on its Attribution Multi-Stakeholder Committee. NQF has a leadership role in the national effort to develop and evaluate healthcare performance measures. The Multi-Stakeholder Committee will advise NQF on how best to attribute the… Continue Reading
Public, Private-Sectors Agree on Quality Measures
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), and America’s Health Insurance Plans (AHIP), the nation’s leading managed care trade association, have announced agreement on seven sets of quality measures they’ll use to evaluate provider performance in the public and private sectors. Numerous experts, including a recent blue-ribbon panel of The Institute of Medicine, have… Continue Reading
Advance Care Planning Training Underway
More than 130 healthcare professionals from Nassau and Suffolk Counties attended IPRO‘s Transforming End Of Life Care Special Innovation Project kick-off event in Melville, NY on January 19th. Featured speakers included Patricia A. Bomba, MD, FACP, Chair of the Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (MOLST) Statewide Implementation Team; and Janet L. Dolgin, PhD, JD,… Continue Reading
IPRO‘s Sepsis Awareness Training Schedule in Place
IPRO has initiated a federally funded Special Innovation Project to raise awareness of sepsis as a medical emergency across the public and health provider communities – focusing on Albany and Syracuse in New York and the Charleston region of South Carolina. Evidence-based resources, tools and materials have been developed in collaboration with medical, academic and… Continue Reading