ROCKVILLE, Md., Feb. 17, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Hospital staff in Michigan intensive care units (ICUs) cut by more than 70 percent the rate of pneumonia in patients who are on ventilators by using a targeted quality improvement initiative funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. This reduction in the rate of ventilator-associated pneumonia was sustained for the duration of the study's follow-up, a period of up to two and a half years. Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a lung infection that occurs in patients who are on ventilators to help them breathe and is a common cause of increased rates of patient illness and death, as well as increased health care costs. The study, published today in the journal Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, includes data ...
ROCKVILLE, Md., Jan. 31, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Older Americans who were treated in Michigan intensive care units (ICUs) saw larger decreases in their likelihood of dying while hospitalized than similar ICU patients in other Midwestern hospitals, according to a new study evaluating an innovative quality improvement initiative funded by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. The initiative, known as the Keystone Project, targeted ways to reduce the number of healthcare-associated infections (HAIs). Previous research has shown that targeted quality improvement programs can reduce HAI rates. This study, "Impact of a Statewide Intensive Care Unit Quality Improvement Initiative on Hospital Mortality and Length of Stay: Retrospective Comparative Analysis," published in toda...
In this final rule, OSHA is modifying its Standard (HCS) to conform to the United Nations' Globally Harmonized System of Classification and Labelling of Chemicals (GHS). OSHA has determined that the modifications will significantly reduce costs and burdens while also improving the quality and consistency of information provided to employers and employees regarding chemical hazards and associated protective measures. Consistent with the requirements of Executive Order 13563, which calls for assessment and, where appropriate, modification and improvement of existing rules, the Agency has concluded this improved information will enhance the effectiveness of the HCS in ensuring that employees are apprised of the chemical hazards to which they may be exposed, and in redu...
Utah physicians earned more than $1.5 million in performance payments from Medicare during the past year for providing high quality preventive care for patients with chronic illness. Incentive payments ranged from $260 to $62,500 per medical practice, with payments made after scrutiny of clinical quality performance, the number of patients treated and other factors, according to HealthInsight, the Medicare quality improvement agency, which contracts with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services.
MONTEBELLO - At Beverly Hospital it is all about quality improvement, according to one rating agency. Recently ranked among 5,000 hospitals nationally, the 224-bed medical center stands in the top 5 percent of health-care providers in the country in terms of mortality and complication rates.
Salt Lake County (SLCo) is a large urban county with a population of about 1.1 million and, contrary to what people may think about Utah, we have about 43,000 youths and adults in SLCo who need substance abuse treatment-but the capacity to treat only about 7,000 per year. Below are some of the reasons that convinced us to move in this direction: * SLCo's substance abuse system was made up of 18 private and public agencies, all with different client record systems-some paper, some electronic. * SLCo had a very limited ability to manage data within the contracted system in order to generate reports for the county, state, and federal governments. * With funders' increased demands for outcomes data, performance and outcomesbased reporting, quality improvement, and contract monitoring were ...
...* A contracted agency's average costs for HIPAA electronic record compli...
Section 401(a) of the Children's Health Insurance Program Reauthorization Act of 2009 (CHIPRA), Public Law 111-3, amended the Social Security Act to enact section 1139A (42 U.S.C.1320b-9a). Section 1139A(b) charged the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) with improving pediatric health care quality measures. The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) is soliciting the submission of measures of children's healthcare quality for potential inclusion in the CHIPRA 2013 Improved Core Set of Health Care Quality Measures (the ``Improved Core Set'') for potential voluntary use by Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program. In addition, CHIPRA established the Pediatric Quality Measures Program to increase the portfolio of measures available to public and private pu...
... Advisor, Child Health and Quality Improvement, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, 540 G...
...(a) The agency or person has written complaint policies and proce...(h) The agency or person has a quality improvement program appropriate to its size and ci...
WASHINGTON - Ozone levels are falling sharply in Eastern states where smog has been a recurring summer problem, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday. The improvement in air quality for a third of the nation's population is due to fewer emissions of nitrogen oxides from hundreds of coal-burning power plants, manufacturing and other large facilities in West Virginia and 18 Eastern states.
WASHINGTON -- Ozone levels are falling sharply in Eastern states where smog has been a recurring summer problem, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday. The improvement in air quality for a third of the nation's population is due to fewer emissions of nitrogen oxides from hundreds of coal-burning power plants, manufacturing and other large facilities in 19 Eastern states.
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