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MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD
The
True Value of NAHQ Membership
Lee Hamilton, NAHQ Secretary-Treasurer, and Lenard Parisi, NAHQ
Member Services Director, team up to highlight some of the valuable
benefits of your NAHQ membership. They say that in these tough
economic times, NAHQ’s numerous awards and grants provide a needed
“stimulus package” to allow members to demonstrate their commitment
to healthcare quality.
QUALITY COLLABORATIVE
Joint
Commission Q&A
This month’s submitted question: Can an uninterruptible power
system be used to meet Medicare's requirement that a surgery center
using general anesthesia have a Type I essential electrical
system?
AHRQ Contract to Develop Criteria to Assess the Evidence Base for
Patient Safety Practices
On January 8 the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality awarded
a contract to develop a set of criteria to be used for assessing
the evidence base for the effectiveness and safety of patient
safety practices in future evidence reviews and for use by
implementers of patient safety practices.
NQF Endorses Practices to Reduce Disparities in
Healthcare
The National Quality Forum has endorsed 45 practices to guide
healthcare systems in providing care that is culturally appropriate
and patient-centered.
NQF Implementation Conference on Waste in the Healthcare
System
The NQF’s upcoming 2009 implementation conference, “Waste Not, Want
Not: The Right Care for Every Patient,” will bring
together experts, innovators, and stakeholders for a 3-day
discussion on the potential of a healthcare system that is free of
waste.
SIG TRENDS
SIG
Listservs Await You
This new section will keep you up to date on our six new Special
Interest Groups (SIGs). First up: SIG Team Leader Sherry Mazer,
CPHQ FACHE, reports that SIG members are busy networking on the
respective Listservs. NAHQ’s Resource Center, an online repository
of forms, policies, and other documents shared through our SIGs, is
now available on the NAHQ Web site.
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
Improving
Quality Performance Through Emotional Learning
Michael E. Frisina, PhD MA, of The Frisina Group, LLC, Elgin, SC,
says that the lack of substantial improvement in the safety and
quality of patient care is due to our single focus on outcomes,
without any regard to years of self-defeating behaviors that drive
those outcomes. He says that we need to shift our attention from
outcomes to performance.
ASSOCIATION NEWS
ICD-10
Annual Summit: April 16–17
Audio Conference on Stroke Center Certification: April
30
Book Review: Lean Hospitals: Improving Quality, Patient
Safety, and Employee Satisfaction
2008 Healthcare Quality Professional Salary
Survey
Tape of Audio Conference on Joint Commission Leadership
Standards Now Available
IN OTHER NEWS
Hospitals
Encouraged to Review “Dry Run” Reports on AHRQ Quality
Measures
CMS Lifts Stop-Work Order on Recovery Audit
Contractors
Health IT Leaders to Share Best Practices at Free Online
Forums
Study: No Evidence That California Nurse Staffing Ratios
Have Improved Care
Using the IHI Global Trigger Tool for Measuring Patient
Safety
STATE NEWS
Arkansas,
California, Florida, Indiana, Louisiana, Maine, Minnesota,
Mississippi, and Washington
MEMBER NEWS
American
Data Network Forms a PSO
American Data Network recently announced the formation of a patient
safety organization, which received its designation through the
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the U.S. Department
of Health and Human Services.
What Role Do Physicians Play in Quality?
Two NAHQ-member physicians respond to the above question. Feel free
to share your opinion at e-news@nahq.org.
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