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6/08
ASHRM Monograph Reviews Data Analysis and Patient Safety
 The American Society for Healthcare Risk Management (ASHRM) has released the third installment in its series of monographs on the use of data to promote patient safety. Data for Safety: Turning Lessons Learned into Actionable Knowledge recommends standardized processes for gathering and analyzing data regardless of how it is identified. To improve those processes, ASHRM recommends that hospitals consider steps such as involving multidisciplinary perspectives, using credible external sources for case studies and recommendations, exploring relationships with Patient Safety Organizations, providing incentives to executives and other managers such as patient safety officers for meeting patient safety goals, celebrating successes, and supporting a culture of safety.

6/08
CMS: Third year of value-based purchasing demonstration shows substantial improvement:
 The latest results of the Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration show dramatic across-the-board improvement in the performance of participating hospitals, according to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Launched in October 2003 by CMS and the Premier Inc. Healthcare Alliance, HQID involves about 250 hospitals in 36 states. The demonstration was designed to test new payment systems under Medicare that would improve the safety, quality and efficiency of care delivered in the nation's hospitals, according to a CMS release.

6/08
Harvard study: Mortality rates lower in Leapfrog hospitals
A study by the Leapfrog Group has found that hospitals that perform well on the Leapfrog Hospital Survey have lower mortality and better quality of care than those who either didn't perform as well on the survey, or who chose not to complete it. Additionally, the study, published in the Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, shows that hospitals that had begun to implement Leapfrog safety practices also had lower mortality rates.

6/08
2008 Dartmouth Executive summary

6/18/08
Activists target hospital safety

6/18/08
Electronic Health Records in Ambulatory Care — A National Survey of Physicians

6/17/08
Third Year of Groundbreaking Medicare Value-Based Purchasing Demonstration Shows Substantial and Continual Improvement in Hospital Inpatient Care

6/17/08
Fed Chairman Says Improving Health Care System Performance Critical

6/16/08
How Hospitals Compare

6/08
Hospitals Improved in Patient Safety for Five Consecutive Years

6/08
2008 Health Care State Rankings

6/08
Compare the Quality of your Local Hospitals

6/08
Web site rates hospitals

6/08
Consumer Reports Health Ratings Center

5/22/08
Doctors Who Say They're Sorry

5/21/08
Government puts hospital comparisons on Web site

5/13/08
Testing the Limits of Transparency

4/15/08
Factories Fading, Hospitals Step In

3/21/08
Self Regional rated one of the top workplaces in the world

3/2008
South Carolina Dashboard on Health Care Quality Compared to All States - Overall Health Care Quality

3/10/2008
It's the Right Thing to Do.

3/4/2008
MySCHospital.org gives public factual data on health-care standards and safety.

3/6/2008
Hospitals ranked for patients at website: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/business/story/362769.html

2/22/2008
Sisters of Charity Providence Hospitals Reports Quality and Patient Safety to Public

2/21/2008
New website provides information on quality of hospital care in South Carolina

 2/21/2008
Find info about hospitals on the net.

2/20/2008
South Carolina Joins Other States in Use of WHA's CheckPoint Program.

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