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MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD
Riding
the Wave to the Future
NAHQ President Thomas Smith announces new members of the External
Advisory Council, a quality think tank for NAHQ, and ponders the
question bandied about this past year: What does it mean to "ride
the wave of quality"?
QUALITY COLLABORATIVE
Joint
Commission Q & A
This month's submitted question: Our Strategic Surveillance System
(S3) points seem to be odd, and we think that the Medicare Provider
Analysis and Review (MedPAR) data might be having an impact on
them. Has the Joint Commission had concerns about this?
AHRQ Releases Resources on Preventing Dangerous Blood
Clots
Two new guides to help consumers and clinicians prevent and treat
deep vein thrombosis were released by the U.S. Department of Health
and Human Services' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
(AHRQ).
ASSOCIATION NEWS
2009
Call for Abstracts
2008 NAHQ Conference Photos and Poster
Winners
Call for Nominations
Q Solutions, 2nd Edition, Now
Available
2008 Healthcare Quality Professional Salary
Survey
NAHQ"s New "Tell a Colleague" Program
National Healthcare Quality Week
NAHQ Fellowship Program
HQF Award Winners
JHQ: Call for Papers on Obstetric Healthcare
Quality and Patient Safety
MEMBER NEWS
Time
to Recertify Your CPHQ Credential?
State News—from Arizona, California, Florida,
Illinois, Indiana, Maryland, Mississippi, Ohio, Texas, and
Washington
IN OTHER NEWS
AHRQ
Announces Process for Approving PSOs
CMS Approves New Hospital Accreditation
Group
APIC Survey: More Leadership on Infection Control
Urged
President Signs Mental Health Parity
Measure
Hospital Pay-for-Performance Bill Introduced in
House
HBIPS Measure Set for Psychiatric Hospitals Ready for
Launch
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Six
Ways to Partner with Patients to Improve Quality
Deborah Bonin, RHIA CPHQ, of Aurora Health Care, Milwaukee, WI,
spoke on patient-centered care at the 2008 NAHQ conference in
Phoenix in September. She offers ways to partner effectively with
patients to improve quality.
SPOTLIGHT
Behavioral
Health: How Can We Help?
Emmett Ervin, MPA CPHQ, highlights the pluses of NAHQ's Behavioral
Health Special Interest Group (SIG), including upcoming discussions
on the current state of behavioral health (e.g., reimbursement,
age-appropriate competencies, retention of core personnel, and
timely discharge planning).
INDUSTRY TRENDS
Current
Challenges in Quality and Safety
Mark R. Chassin, MD, president of the Joint Commission, was the
keynote speaker at NAHQ's annual conference in Phoenix in
September. He touched on several challenges, including the state of
quality, robust process improvement, high-reliability
organizations, the safety culture, and the near miss.
CMS Targets Value-Based Purchasing
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) officials Arnold
Z. Balanoff, MD FAAP, and Robert Epps, MPA, recently spoke at a
conference in St. Louis, MO, on CMS's progress toward implementing
value-based purchasing. Here are some highlights.
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
| "With Healthcare Quality Foundation's New Quality Professional
Grant, I was able to attend the NAHQ 2008 Educational Conference in
Phoenix last month. The conference was everything I hoped for and
more. The networking opportunities were wonderful, and the sessions
were outstanding. I am already putting the information that I
obtained to good use and plan to be an active association member."
--Connie Thornton, coordinator quality/systems analyst, Broward
Health, Fort Lauderdale, FL |
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This issue of NAHQ E-News is sponsored by
CDA Antimicrobial.
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