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MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD
NAHQ
in Springtime
NAHQ President Cathy Munn takes stock of NAHQ’s many areas of
progress during the first quarter of 2009—in leadership,
membership, and professional development.
QUALITY COLLABORATIVE
NQF
Releases 2009 Safe Practices for Better
Healthcare
To guide healthcare systems in providing care that is free from
error and harm, the National Quality Forum has released its 2009
Safe Practices for Better Healthcare. To accelerate the pace of
adoption of NQF’s Safe Practices nationwide, a yearlong Webinar
series providing Safe Practices implementation strategies and
commentary from experts in the field will begin April 23.
AHRQ Gets Comparative Effectiveness Funding in the American
Recovery and Reinvestment Act
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is excited about new
opportunities through funding by the American Recovery and
Reinvestment Act to provide patients, clinicians, and others
evidence-based information for making informed decisions about
healthcare. AHRQ plans to use the funding to build on its existing
collaborative and transparent Effective Health Care Program.
Joint Commission Q&A
This month’s submitted question: Can the survey notification time
occur earlier than 7:30 am on the first day of a survey?
SIG TRENDS
Acute
Care SIG Sees Action
The Acute Care Special Interest Group (SIG) has recently seen
significant activity and collaboration, including a helpful tip on
the benefits of using the Listserv archive feature to browse old
discussions.
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
You
and Your Career: Managing Through Tough Times
Barbara A. Fuchs, MS BSN RN CCMEP CPHQ FNAHQ, president of EPiQ
Services, LLC, provides some helpful tips for managing your
personal and professional life in an uncertain economy.
ASSOCIATION NEWS
HQF
Grant Applications Due April 24
CPHQ Review Course: June 18–19
Quality Boot Camp: June 19
NAHQ to Initiate Market Research
Book Review: The Five Dysfunctions of a
Team
Product Feature: How to Powerfully View Data When "Yucky"
Events Are Rare!
NQF Conference Focuses on Reducing Waste in
Healthcare
NAHQ Career Center Joins the National Healthcare Career
Network
IN OTHER NEWS
Free
“Safe Practices” Webinar on April 23
Save Lives: Clean Your Hands
AHA Urges Congress to “Invest in
Quality”
JCR to Host Conference on Hospital-Acquired Conditions May
5–6
INDUSTRY TRENDS
NAHQ
Joins Broad Coalition to Improve Healthcare Quality and
Affordability
NAHQ has joined a diverse coalition of more than 165 organizations
from across the healthcare spectrum to endorse Stand for Quality,
which promotes improving the quality and affordability of
healthcare for all patients through a public-private
partnership.
STATE NEWS
Arkansas,
California, Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Louisiana, Maryland,
Minnesota, Mississippi, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, and
Washington
SPOTLIGHT
Navigating
the Rising Tide of PSIs and HACs
Baystate Medical Center (BMC) in Springfield, MA, is proactive,
working hard to anticipate ever-evolving quality and patient safety
standards. Gina Trelease, MEd RN CPHQ, and Janice Fitzgerald, MS RN
CPHQ, share BMC’s work with patient safety indicators (PSIs) and
hospital-acquired conditions (HACs).
QUOTE OF THE MONTH
“The Obama administration is working with Congress to mandate that
all Medicare payments be tied to ‘quality metrics.’ But an analysis
of this drive for better health care reveals a fundamental flaw in
how quality is defined and metrics applied,” say Jerome Groopman
and Pamela Hartzband in a recent opinion piece in the Wall
Street Journal.
Click here to read on.
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