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Spring 2008

  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus Aureus(MRSA), or Resistance Is Futile?
  • New Web Site Allows Users Access to Hospital Performance Data
  • CMS Proposes Rate Year 2009 Payment, Policy Changes for Long-Term Care Hospitals
  • Hospital Emergency Departments Face Host of New Pressures
  • CMS to Halt Payments to Hospitals for “Never Events”
  • Racial Disparities Persist in Cancer Treatment

 

 

Winter 2007

  • Teamwork: An Essential Component of Patient Safety
  • 5 Million Lives Campaign: To "Make Harm History"
  • SIOC: Improving Patient Safety Through Technology Implementation
  • Culture Change: The Core of Patient Safety Improvements

 

 

Fall 2007

  • Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP): A Partnership for Better Surgical Care in Ohio Hospitals
  • Three Hospitals' Success in Surgical Care
  • Ohio Receives Mixed Grade on Health Performance Scorecard
  • Hospital Payment Monitoring Program Reduces Error

 

 

Spring/Summer 2007

  • IPG Hospitals Show Greater Improvement than Non-IPG Hospitals on Appropriate Care Measures
  • Coming of Age: Family Advisory Councils
  • Parma Community General Hospital Brings Transformational Change to Cardica Care
  • Westat Survey: Your Response Helps Improve Quality of Care
  • Ohio Receives Safe-RxTM Award
  • Memorandum of Agreement Needed for Medicare Participation
  • Proposed Legislation Would Mandate 24/7 Emergency Departments
  • Medicare/Prevention Bus Tour Comes to Ohio

 

 

Winter 2006-2007

  • IHI’S 5 Million Lives Campaign to Reduce Medical Harm Throughout the Nation
  • IHI’S 5 Million Lives Campaign to Reduce Medical Harm Throughout the Nation
  • Crew Resource Management, Part II
  • Implement Concurrent Monitoring to Ensure Every Patient Receives the Right Care Every Time
  • 5 Million Lives Campaign—The Bare Essentials
  • Preventing Pressure Ulcers

 

 

Fall 2006

  • Prophylactic Antibiotics: Too Little, Too Much or Just Right?
  • Compare and Prepare: Using Hospital Compare to Share Your Quality Improvement Stories
  • Hospital Validation: Keys to Success
  • Project Assists Implementation of Health Information Technology

 

 

Summer 2006

  • Crew Resource Management: Lessons for Healthcare—Part I
  • Standardizing Care: Guidelines, Protocols and Pathways
  • The Quality of Health Care Explored in Four-Part PBS Series: Remaking American Medicine™…Health Care for the 21st Century
  • Systems Improvement and Organizational Culture Change (SIOC): The Role of Computerized Physician Order Entry
  • Abstraction: Helpful Hint

 

 

Spring 2006

  • Ohio Hospitals Pursuing Patient-Centered Care: The Planetree Model
  • Abstraction/Validation Updates
  • Dates to Remember (Dates are approximate)
  • Web-Based Training Modules Focus on Quality improvement
  • Quality of Care and High Performance: Two Perspectives
  • Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) Lessons Learned and Shared by a Pilot Hospital
  • “Blame Free” + Accountability = Just Culture*
  • Hospitals Get New Resource for Preventing Medicare Payment Errors

 

 

Winter 2005

  • Rapid Response Teams Reduce Mortality Rates By 30% or More
  • A Patient-Centered Measure: Appropriateness of Care
  • Health Information Technology a Key to Patient Safety and Quality Improvement
  • Closing the Quality Gap
  • Survey Examines Hospital Safety Culture
  • Quality Improvement Plans are Effective Tools
  • Hospital Validation Updates
  • New Performance Measures Proposed for Critical Access Hospitals
  • Prevention of Venous Thromboembolism in the Surgical Patient
  • Adult Inpatient Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccination
    Self-Study Continuing Education Course

 

 

Fall 2005

  • New Survey Compares Hospitals in Seven Key Areas
  • QualityNet Exchange Checklist for Hospitals
  • Ohio KePRO Offers Free Cultural Sensitivity Training Modules
  • Workgroup Addresses Concerns of Small Rural and Critical Access Hospitals
  • Facts About Influenza Vaccine Efficacy in the Elderly
  • CMS Requires Hospitals to Adopt New Cardiac Registry for Quality Data

 

 

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