Hospital Peer Review – March 1, 2011
March 1, 2011
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One big step toward value-based with CMS issuance of proposed rule
Value-based purchasing has been a much-used term, and the evolution to such a system has been long held as a reality for the future. -
Proposed rule leaves many questions
It's a proposed rule. So it's up for comment. And that's a good thing, because there are many in the field. -
Suicide assessment team in the ED
Michelle Buckman, RN, MSN, is a psychiatric clinical nurse specialist working as a consultant to the Loma Linda University Medical Center emergency department. -
ANA awards five hospitals for nursing quality
According to Craig Luzinski, MSN, RN, NEA-BC, FACHE, chief nursing officer at Poudre Valley Hospital in Fort Collins, CO, the hospital received the American Nurses Association (ANA) NDNQI (National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators) Award for Outstanding Nursing Quality for the fourth consecutive year. -
Credentialing & Privileging: FPPE/OPPE: Monitoring practitioners' privileges
In the first three articles of this series, Vicki Searcy, president, consulting services at Morrisey Associates Inc. in Chicago, introduced the four basic components of clinical privileging. She examined establishing criteria for privileges as well as accepting applications for privileges and applying criteria. -
NQF endorses new mental health measures
The National Quality Forum (NQF) has endorsed four outcome-based mental health measures looking at depression and patient satisfaction in an inpatient psychiatric hospital stay. -
ED leaders reverse poor flow trends
How's this for a turnaround? A few years ago, patient satisfaction levels in the three EDs of the Cambridge (MA) Health Alliance were in the lowest decile in Massachusetts, and now they are consistently in the top quartile.