Healthcare Benchmarks and Quality Improvement Archives – February 1, 2007
February 1, 2007
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New IHI campaign will target medical harm in U.S. hospitals
Looking to build upon the momentum of its successful 100,000 Lives Campaign, the Boston-based Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) has launched the 5 Million Lives Campaign, whose goal is to "protect patients from five million incidents of medical harm over a 24-month period, ending December 9, 2008." -
Rural facility receives Baldrige for 2006
Quality leaders at North Mississippi Medical Center in Tupelo say the creation of a culture of "Servant Leadership" is one of the main reasons it has become the first rural health care facility to win the prestigious Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award, earning the 2006 distinction for organizational performance excellence in the health care category. -
Hospitals collaborate on IV meds standards
Collaborations among hospitals to improve the delivery of care is a growing trend in U.S. health care, but a group of facilities in San Diego County, CA, has joined forces to address an area they claim has not previously been targeted in this manner: The delivery of IV medications. -
Private sector P4P taking hold, expert says
Pay-for-performance structures have strongly taken root in the private sector, but progress in the public sector is "quite mixed," according to Richard Sorian, vice president of public policy, marketing, and external relations for the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA). Sorian was the coordinator for an NCQA-sponsored meeting on December 1, 2006, in Washington, DC, entitled, "Pay for Performance: A Critical Examination." -
CMS to publicly report hospital mortality rates
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has begun a process that will result in the public reporting of new hospital performance data, including the comparisons of heart attack and heart failure mortality adopted last year by the Hospital Quality Alliance. -
AHA helps hospitals view their performance
All hospitals that report the 21 quality measures developed by the Hospital Quality Alliance have received a link from the American Hospital Association to an online report formatted for viewing the quality data their hospital provides to the Hospital Compare Web site. -
Multivariable testing cuts door-to-doc times by 24%
Members of the ED staff at Blount Memorial Hospital in Maryville, TN, have cut the door-to-doc time from one hour to 45 minutes, and they hope to get it below 30 minutes, following a new initiative using a process called multivariable testing (MVT). -
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