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MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD
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Fresh Canvas Awaits Us in 2009
NAHQ President Cathy Munn says that, like the rest of us, NAHQ
promises to “do better” in 2009. Our organization is off to a great
start with the new SIGS, which provide members a way to network
with others employed in like disciplines.
QUALITY COLLABORATIVE
NQF
Launches New Project to Improve Coordination of
Healthcare
The National Quality Forum has launched a yearlong project to
improve patient safety and reduce waste by promoting practices and
measures that better coordinate a notoriously fragmented healthcare
system.
Strategies to Reduce Medical Residents’ Fatigue-Related Errors and
Improve Training
To improve patient safety and the training environment, fatigued
medical residents need protected sleep periods and increased
supervision of work-hour limits, according to a new Institute of
Medicine report.
Joint Commission Q&A
This month’s submitted question: Are major scoring changes coming
in 2009?
ASSOCIATION NEWS
Call
for Nominations Deadline: January 30
Live Audio Conference on Joint Commission Leadership
Standards
2009 Team Leader Network
VAHQ Responds to Obama Team’s Request to Host Community
Healthcare Discussions
New Special Interest Groups
NEW! Book Review: Home-Centered Health
Care
NAHQ e-news Readership Survey
Results
New Career Center Link in NAHQ
e-news
IN OTHER NEWS
Report:
Quality Should Drive Rationale for Health IT
Efforts
Study: Rapid Response Teams Don’t Cut Cardiac Arrest, Death
Rates
Commonwealth Fund Launches Site on Hospital
Comparisons
Web Site Highlights Healthcare Innovation and Reform
Efforts
IHI: Helping Patients with
Self-Management
MEMBER NEWS
Has
Your CPHQ Certification Lapsed?
HQCB’s CPHQ Examination Program
Reaccredited
State News—from Arkansas and Mississippi
INDUSTRY TRENDS
Minnesota
Legislators Fast-Track a “Healthcare Home” Model
An all-out push to develop a large-scale patient-centered medical
home model is under way in Minnesota, where in May 2008 state
legislators passed a statewide “healthcare home” initiative. The
legislation calls for statewide healthcare home pilot projects to
begin by mid-2009.
South Carolina’s Medicaid Medical Home Model Improves
Patient Care and Saves Money
South Carolina’s Medical Homes Network model is improving
healthcare outcomes for Medicaid beneficiaries—and saving
costs.
SPOTLIGHT
Mission
Hospital’s Rapid Response Team Program
A representative of Mission Hospital (Mission Viejo, CA), recipient
of the Joint Commission’s 2008 Ernest Amory Codman Award, discusses
the organization’s use of outcomes measurement to improve the
quality and safety of healthcare.
This issue of NAHQ E-News is sponsored by
CDA Antimicrobial.
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