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When Intermountain Healthcare's LDS Hospital joined with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare and nine other hospitals to work on hand-offs, the health system's associate chief medical officer says the first step was identifying which hand-offs the hospital wanted to work on.
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From new and revised standards to new levels of accreditation, this year will bring some changes in Joint Commission expectations.
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Despite his modesty about his work and life, James L. Reinertsen, MD, received a 2010 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality award for individual achievement from The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum.
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In October 2010, The Joint Commission told Hospital Peer Review it was going to change the way core, or ORYX, measure data was used to accredit hospitals.
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A new rapid tuberculosis test promises to help reduce health care worker exposures through early identification of patients.
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Medicaid patients had higher mortality after major surgeries than other patients, according to Primary Payer Status Affects Mortality for Major Surgical Operations, a new study from researchers at the University of Virginia Health System in Charlottesville. The study was published in the September 2010 issue of Annals of Surgery.
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A greater percentage of Washington state's Medicaid population is being moved into managed care, most likely beginning with the Supplemental Security Income (SSI) population. "We will be going out with an RFP next year, for a start date of early 2012," reports MaryAnne Lindeblad, assistant secretary of the state's Department of Social and Health Services.
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Is it a foregone conclusion that for many states, the expansion of Medicaid in 2014 will be next to impossible, fiscally speaking? In fact, some analysts, and also some state Medicaid directors, say that Medicaid programs should come out ahead.
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California's Department of Health Care Services' (DHCS) anti-fraud program is regarded among the top programs in the nation, reports department spokesman Anthony Cava.
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Health care reform "is extraordinarily complex a massive, truly unprecedented social experiment," says Kip Piper, MA, FACHE, president of the Health Results Group in Washington, DC. "As Rick Foster, the CMS [Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services] Chief Actuary, has correctly pointed out, there really is no way to precisely estimate enrollment."