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April and May were busy months for the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which issued several proposed and final rules that will affect hospitals and other healthcare organizations for years to come.
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Although many hospitals worked hard to be ready for the implementation of ICD-10 coding to replace the decades-old ICD-9, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has delayed final implementation until Oct. 1, 2013.
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Sometimes, you need someone to lead a project. Sometimes, it's easy. But what about those times when you just can't find someone to take the helm? Helen Macfie, Pharm.D., senior vice president of performance improvement at the six-hospital MemorialCare Health System in Southern California thinks she's got it figured out. She has a top 10 list that might help others, too.
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When the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) named Patricia Gabow, MD, CEO of the Denver Health and Hospital Authority, one of the winners of its National Quality Awards, it didn't shock the people she works with.
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In its sixth year as a Lean organization, MemorialCare in Southern California refers to Lean as its management system, not a quality improvement method, says Diana Hendel, Pharm.D., CEO of Long Beach Memorial Medical Center, Miller Children's Hospital and Community Hospital both also of Long Beach.
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It was a summer of crime in Washington, DC, and area police agencies collaborated to implement a crime prevention program called All Hands On Deck. Washington Hospital Center was having a problem with falls. Would a program based on the idea of putting everyone to work to prevent falls help keep patients safe?
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Most organizations that are looking for what went wrong after an error are familiar with the Failure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) method.
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Before North Broward Medical Center in Deerfield Beach, FL, re-engineered its discharge process two years ago, 29% of patients were being readmitted within 30 days. Now, the figure has dropped to 15%.
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The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has delayed the implementation of the ICD-10 procedure and diagnostic coding set, but that doesn't mean that hospitals can forget about preparing for the conversion to the new system, says Deborah Hale, CCS, CCDS, president and chief executive officer of Administrative Consultant Service, a healthcare consulting firm based in Shawnee, OK.
