2004:
CMS Releases Guidelines for Submitting Hospital Quality Information
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid (CMS) recently announced guidelines for
hospitals to use submitting quality performance data to the agency.
Hospitals are required by the “Medicare Prescription Drug, Improvement, and
Modernization Act” (PL 108-173) to submit data pertaining to 10 quality
measures before hospitals can receive full Medicare payments in fiscal year
2005. Hospitals that do not submit this information will receive 0.4 percent
less in Medicare payments than hospitals that report the information.
The 10 quality measures included in this initiative include:
Acute Myocardial Infarction:
Was aspirin given to the patient when upon arrival at the hospital?
Was aspirin prescribed when the patient was discharged?
Was a beta-blocker given to the patient upon arrival at the hospital?
Was a beta-blocker prescribed when the patient was discharged?
Was an ACE inhibitor given for the patient with heart failure?
Heart failure:
Did the patient get an assessment of his or her heart function?
Was an ACE inhibitor given to the patient?
Pneumonia:
Was an antibiotic given to the patient in a timely way?
Had a patient received a pneumococcal vaccination?
Was the patient's oxygen level assessed?
&Josephine &Jalandoni , RN
&Lulu &Ibanez, PA
Conference given May 31-June 2, 2002 at The Otesaga Hotel, Cooperstown, NY
"Quality: Creating Health Care Culture of Excellence" - sponsored by the ACP-
ASIM. Program planned by Linda Lamvert, Lawrence Faltz.
A Response to IOM "To Err is Human".
Sponsored by Pfizer, Sankyo, Wyet, Aventis,Pharmacia, MLMIC, Novartis
1. Achieving Quality through Best Practices - David Classen (Utah)
2. The Quality Challenge - David Nash (Thomas Jeff)
3. Professionalism-An Ideal to be Pursued - Richard and Sylvia Cruess(McGill
4. Supply and Demand: Primary Care - Edward Salsberg (Albany - MPA)
5. How to run a safer office: Lisa Kaufman (Syracuse)
6. Patient safety - William Golden (Little Rock)
7. Improving Quality - Who Will Lead - Mark Chassin (Mt. Sinai)
8. Current Legislative Issues - Jack Ginsberg (ACP-ASIM-Wash.DC)
9. Assessing Care of Vulnerable Elders - Margaret McDonald (Pfizer)
10. State Panel on Quality Oversight - Jonathan Federman (asst counsel to gov)
Foster Gesten, MD - Director NYS DOH Office of Managed Care
Wayne osten - Office of Health Systems Managment
Conference - January 18, 2002 - Mass. Med. Soc - AAPP
Physician Well-Being
1. Professional Balance - Richard Franke, PhD
2. Stress Management - Devorah Steinberg, LICSW
3. Values Clarification - Linda Pololi MD - East Carolina
4. Healing the Physician - Rabbi Alan Ullman - cincinatti
5. Managing Mistakes - John Christensen, PHD - Legacy Portland Hospital
6. Intimate Partners - Julie Christensen, M.Ap.Th- couples therapy
7. Workplace Support of Well-Being - Judith Jordan, PHD-empathy-Wellesley
8. Mindfulness in Financial Planning - George Kinder, CFP=money dysfxn-
Cambridge
9. TaiChi _ Steven Han, MD-Instruct in Psych AECOM, Dir Primary Care Jacobi
William D. Clark, MD - addiction med - Harvard/Dartmouth/Vermont
Hanna B. Sherman, MD-consultant on well beling-childrens Hospital-spirituality
