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At Blanchard Valley Regional Health Center in Findlay, OH, every employee receives bonuses linked to the organization's financial and quality performance.
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Budget-conscious quality managers might want to take a good, hard look at the findings in the latest report from the Dartmouth Atlas Project, in Hanover, NH.
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An infant is born with severe neurological defects following the mother's prolonged labor. Although the mother's labor is not progressing as would be expected, no one on the health care team seems concerned about the lack of progression until the unborn baby shows signs of fetal distress.
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At recent JCAHO surveys at two hospitals in the Wisconsin-based Aurora Healthcare System, all components of medication management were a major focus.
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In a first step toward a new ambulatory surgery center (ASC) payment system, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) has issued a proposed rule that would pay ASCs 62% of the hospital outpatient department (HOPD) rate, beginning Jan. 1, 2008, with a two-year transition period.
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In a proposed regulation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is adding 14 procedures to the approved list for ambulatory surgery centers (ASCs) in 2007 (see list) and plans to expand the list further in 2008.
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Under a proposed regulation, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) would require hospital outpatient department (HOPD) payment rate updates to be tied to inpatient quality measures provided by the hospital, beginning in 2007. Under the proposal, hospitals that don't submit the required quality data would see their HOPD rate updates reduced 2 percentage points.
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A July report from the American Hospital Association (AHA) regarding the shift of care to nonhospital settings1 brought strong reaction from FASA, which said the association is playing "the blame game."
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Do you really want to know how to make people happy at your facility? I mean, do you really want to know? I will step up and be honest; sometimes I don't know! Sometimes I really don't care and want someone to make me happy.
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In a final report from the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services on specialty hospitals, the agency said it will fine these facilities $10,000 per day if they fail to report their financial structure to the federal government. It also will require specialty hospitals to disclose their financial relationships with physicians to patients and to treat all emergency patients regardless of their ability to pay.
