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Founded in 1997, the State Childrens Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) has evolved from broad-based efforts to raise general program awareness to a tighter focus on specific hard-to-reach groups, researchers report.
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A program funded by Eli Lilly in 19 states is improving the quality of care Medicaid patients receive by aligning physician prescribing of mental health medications with national, evidence-based best prescribing practices.
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Nebraska is poised to dramatically increase the number of diseases for which newborns are screened, all the while holding fast to a policy that forbids parents from opting out of the testing.
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Denver Health—Colorado's largest health care safety net provider—is being lauded as a model system for promoting a culture of continuous quality improvement, adopting new technology and incorporating it into everyday practice, taking risks and making mid-course corrections, and providing leadership with accountability.
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Following closely on the heels of its successful Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) project with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, Premier Inc. is launching Quest (quality, efficiency, and safety, with transparency), a voluntary three-year program that will reward hospitals that achieve certain quality and efficiency measures and help them share best practices.
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QIO developing outpatient quality measures; Health leaders name quality 'favorites'; The Joint Commission names new president; This year's 'Most Wired' take balanced approach
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Quality managers know that it's hard enough to get nurses and physicians to buy in to their initiatives, but at Columbus (IN) Regional Hospital, even non-clinical staff members are expected to make quality improvement one of their primary goals.
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Survivors of aortic dissection may improve their odds of long-term survival with more aggressive follow-up care and more targeted discharge instructions, based on the findings of a new study in the New England Journal of Medicine.
