Quality & Patient Safety
Congratulations to all of my nursing colleagues as we celebrate National Nurses Week. It is important that we take time to pause to recognize the valuable contributions that nurses make each and every day. The focus of this year鈥檚 Nurses Week is Culture of Safety: It Starts With You.鈥
The American College of Surgeons (ACS) recently released Statements on Principles on the responsibility of the primary surgeon during surgery.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services will host a May 12 webinar on its overall hospital quality 鈥渟tar ratings鈥 methodology. During the 90-minute webinar, which begins at 1 p.m. ET, presenters will explain the methodology used to generate the summary rating for individual hospitals鈥
As AHA President Rick Pollack noted in his Friday blog post, this week we come together to celebrate the more than five million dedicated women and men working in America鈥檚 hospitals and health systems for National Hospital Week. How can your hospital get involved? Join the AHA鈥檚 #MyHospital鈥
Adding a spending per beneficiary measure to the Hospital Value-Based Purchasing Program in 2015 while decreasing the weight of the quality measures allowed some lower quality hospitals to receive bonuses, according to study published this week in Health Affairs. 鈥淗igh-quality low-spending鈥
Today the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the Pew Charitable Trusts released a study in JAMA and corresponding editorial that analyzed antibiotic use in the outpatient setting. The study found that in the U.S. in 2010-2011, there was an estimated annual antibiotic prescription鈥
The AHA today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to suspend the pain-related questions in the Value-Based Purchasing Program while the agency works to address concerns the questions may inadvertently contribute to the opioid epidemic. The three questions are part of the Hospital鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today opened registration for a May 12 webinar on its overall hospital quality 鈥渟tar ratings鈥 methodology. During the 90-minute webinar, which begins at 1 p.m. ET, presenters will explain the methodology used to generate the summary rating for鈥
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) announced today that it will delay until at least July 2016 the release of overall hospital quality 鈥渟tar ratings鈥 on its Hospital Compare website. The ratings were originally scheduled to be released April 21.