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Effective Oct. 1, 2008, the CMS stopped reimbursing healthcare providers for 11 “never events” -- considered reasonably preventable errors in healthcare delivery. What are the "never event" policies for the various insurers and state associations? Modern Healthcare is tracking those decisions through its Never Events Tracking System.
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Laying the groundwork for quality | Hospital engagement networks—call them HENs—tasked with ambitious goals for reducing readmissions and hospital-acquired conditions
By Maureen McKinney | May 19, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
On the morning of March 27, a group of 46 quality improvement professionals gathered in a brightly lit conference room on the ground floor of a large...
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CMS no-payment policy spurs action: study
By Maureen McKinney | April 30, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The CMS' nonpayment policy for certain types of healthcare-associated infections has led hospitals to ramp up their surveillance and prevention...
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The price of prevention | Providers find CDC's tracking system for HAIs valuable but burdensome
By Maureen McKinney | April 28, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Enrollment in the CDC's National Healthcare Safety Network, the federal system for tracking healthcare-associated infections, has grown exponentially...
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CDC: Some HAIs down from predictions, more work needed
By Maureen McKinney | April 19, 2012
Healthcare facilities made headway during 2010 on reducing rates of central line-associated bloodstream infections, according to an infection report...
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HHS homes in on IT in preventing HAIs
By Maureen McKinney | April 19, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
In a revised draft of its National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections, HHS emphasized the central role of health information...
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ACS, CDC project targets surgical-site infections
By Maureen McKinney | April 16, 2012
The American College of Surgeons and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have teamed up on a three-year project that will use health...
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Joint Commission creates HAI info portal
By Maureen McKinney | April 02, 2012
The Joint Commission has unveiled an online portal containing information and resources to help providers curb rates of healthcare-associated...
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Grants offered for reliability, safety research
By Joe Carlson | March 22, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The American Hospital Association's American Society for Healthcare Risk Management is accepting proposals for research grants of up to $100,000 each...
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Negative outcome | Study brings CMS website impact into question
By Maureen McKinney | March 10, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
New research is once again prompting questions about the usefulness of the government's Hospital Compare website and its ability to improve hospital...
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Joint Commission tool targets wrong-site surgery
By Maureen McKinney | February 14, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The Joint Commission has unveiled a tool hospitals can use to prevent incidences of wrong-site surgery. Developed by the
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Safety ‘milestone’ | Hospital Compare adds central line infection data
By Maureen McKinney | February 11, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Users of the CMS’ Hospital Compare website can now access their hospital’s rates of dangerous and preventable central line-associated...
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Panel suggests health-worker vaccine mandate
By Paul Barr | February 10, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
HHS' National Vaccine Advisory Committee approved a recommendation that healthcare employers that haven't achieved 90% influenza vaccination...
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Hospital Compare website adds infection data
By Maureen McKinney | February 07, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
The CMS' Hospital Compare website has been updated with facility-specific data on central line-associated bloodstream infections.
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Study finds rising number of HAI outbreaks tied to norovirus
By Maureen McKinney | February 02, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
An increasing number of healthcare-associated infection outbreaks are due to norovirus, an easily spreadable organism whose symptoms include vomiting...
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Avoiding the penalty box | New rules on readmissions push hospitals, post-acute providers into closer collaboration
By Jessica Zigmond | January 28, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Do financial penalties in healthcare actually change behavior to a degree that leads to positive change? When it comes to readmissions, an answer is...
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Minn. sees slight rise in total number of adverse events, report says
By Maureen McKinney | January 21, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Minnesota's total number of reported adverse events rose slightly in 2011, up 3.6% to 316 from 305 in 2010, according to a report from the state's...
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Colo. agency cites progress against HAIs
By Maureen McKinney | January 15, 2012 | Basic Web Basic Web Subscription Details
Colorado hospitals, surgery centers and dialysis clinics are making progress in curbing rates of healthcare-associated infections, according a report...
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Good with the bad | NQF group rates performance measures
By Maureen McKinney | January 14, 2012 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Some federal performance measures are ready for prime time, but most need more work or should be eliminated altogether, according to an expert group...
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Jessica Zigmond and Rich Daly Window to Washington Blog
Leapfrog chief pushes ‘never events’ policy
By Jessica Zigmond | December 07, 2011
Why? Why not?! That’s what hospital executives and workers should ask their board members if their facilities don’t have a “never...
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Risk reduction | Efforts to reduce radiation exposure increase as awareness grows
By Jaimy Lee | November 28, 2011 | Print Magazine Print Magazine Subscription Details
Several years ago, a physician at Scripps Health launched a pilot program that used a patient's body mass index to measure dose for a computed...
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