Quality & Patient Safety
On August 11, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published in the Federal Register its skilled nursing facility \(SNF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) final rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
In November 1999 the Institute of Medicine \(IOM\) released its landmark report, To Err is Human, which estimated that as many as 98,000 people die each year in hospitals because of preventable medical harm.
On May 12, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) published Federal Register the Medicare skilled nursing facility \(SNF\) prospective payment system \(PPS\) proposed rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2010.
Standardizing the colors of the wristbands used in hospitals is the sensible approach to improving patient safety, and many state hospital associations have already engaged their hospitals in this effort. As the national advocate for America's hospitals, the AHA is asking all hospitals to consider…
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services \(CMS\) in the August 8 Federal Register published the skilled nursing facility \(SNF\) prospective payment system final rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2009.
CMS May 7 in the Federal Register published the skilled nursing facility \(SNF\) prospective payment system proposed rule for fiscal year \(FY\) 2009. In addition to standard annual updates, the rule would implement a significant cut to offset payment increases resulting from a 2006 policy change…
On March 28, information about patients' experience of hospital care from the HCAHPS survey will be shared publicly for the first time on the Hospital Quality Alliance's \(HQA\) Web site, Hospital Compare. Health care consumers highly value information about patients' perceptions of their hospital…
The five-year anniversary of the Institute of Medicine \(IOM\)'s report To Err is Human is fast approaching. There was much media attention when IOM released this report on patient safety in 1999, with most of the headlines focusing on the nearly 98,000 people the report cited as having died…
The Hospital Quality Alliance \(HQA\) has adopted, on a preliminary basis, 10 performance measures of hospital outpatient quality.