Hospital-Acquired Condition Reduction Program
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has announced an error in calculating Clostridium difficile infection performance during the first two quarters of 2014.
This error affects hospital performance in the fiscal year 2017 Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program, baseline…
CMS on Aug. 2 issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system and long-term care hospital PPS final rule for fiscal year (FY) 2017.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicare Services today alerted hospitals to an error in some hospital-specific reports for hospital-acquired conditions distributed June 9 to hospitals and critical access hospitals. The reports had the wrong hospital name in Table 2, but all of the data was…
CMS April 18 issued its hospital inpatient prospective payment system and long-term care hospital PPS proposed rule for fiscal year 2017.
Today’s Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) Vital Signs report shines a spotlight on Health care-Associated Infections and what can be done to prevent them. Hospitals are working hard to eliminate infections and keep patients safe. And while we are making progress, our ultimate goal is…
The progress hospitals are making to improve patient care was featured in a recent New York Times blog on fixing difficult problems. The piece highlights the work of hospitals across the country to reduce preventable infections arising from surgeries, pressure ulcers, blood clots and other sources…
Progress is encouraging; continuous progress promises a better future.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services last week re-issued hospital-specific reports to all hospitals in the fiscal year 2016 Hospital Acquired Condition Reduction Program to correct inaccuracies in the surgical site infection measure scores. The revised reports also include updated…