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Miami Chamber names finalists for Healthcare Heroes Awards
The Greater Miami Chamber has announce that the University of Miami's Dr. Thomas Balkany will be honored with the AXA Lifetime Achievement Award and that the finalists in the Nurse category this year are Nancy Auster (VITAS), Kris Kist (Baptist South Miami Hospital), and Cindy Magnole (Jackson Memorial Hospital). All nominees and winners will be recognized at a luncheon on the 22nd of May at the Jungle Island Treetop Ballroom. For more information please click here or contact Tania Valenzuela at tvalenzuela@miamichamber.com or 305-577-5491. To register please click here.
Emerging Minority Leaders Program
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management is launching a new and important program to meet the challenge of leadership diversity in the executive suite. The "Preparing Emerging Minority Leaders in Health Care for the CEO & C-Level Roles," program is designed to accelerate the preparation of mid-level health care managers and a new generation of leaders. The program is driven by evidence-based research of successful CEOs and C-Level leaders throughout U.S. health care and business. The program will take place May 22 - 23 in Chicago. For more information, please click here.
Conference: Translating Nursing Research Knowledge into Nursing Practice
Nurse educators, and masters and doctoral students are encouraged to register before the May 16 deadline to attend the 2012 Nursing Education Research conference in Indianapolis, IN on June 15 & 16, 2012. The conference, sponsored by Sigma Theta Tau International and the National League for Nursing will focus on strategies for supporting practice-research interface and on research innovations among other topics. For the complete program schedule, speakers, and registration information, please click here.
UM to host XIII Pan American Nursing Research Colloquium
Local nurse leaders, researchers, scholars, and students are encouraged to make plans to join peers from throughout the Americas and the globe for this biennial gathering featuring national and international leaders. The three day event will take place September 5-7, 2012 at the Loews Hotel in Miami Beach. Global Nursing Research Challenges for the Millennium is the 2012 colloquium theme and the three overarching colloquium objectives are (1) To disseminate emerging advances in nursing research from around the globe related to clinical practice, health systems and health services, and education strategies, (2) To advance our collective knowledge in order to support research related to the Millennium Development Goals, and (3) To strengthen evidence-based practice of nurses around the globe. Abstracts may be submitted online through June 15, 2012. For additional information including the agenda, featured speakers, registration information and more, please click here.
New award to recognize hospital infection prevention leaders
Hospitals can apply through Aug. 1 for a new award recognizing sustained improvement in preventing healthcare-associated infections, based on the concepts of the National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections. Sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the Partnership for Prevention Award will honor prevention leaders in the U.S. acute care community who have achieved wide-scale reduction and progress toward eliminating targeted HAIs. The inaugural award will be presented Oct. 15, during International Infection Prevention Week.
Commission issues plan to improve chronic care, reduce health spending
The Commonwealth Fund Commission on a High Performance Health System has proposed that the Department of Health and Human Services select 50 to 100 communities to receive seed funding and regulatory flexibility to improve care and lower costs for patients with chronic conditions. “Under our proposal, local communities would seek to involve all chronically ill residents, regardless of health insurance status or source of coverage, in care improvement initiatives utilizing three evidence-based tools: payment reform, to encourage accountability; primary care, to improve care coordination; and health information technology, to promote information use and sharing,” the commission said in areport on the proposal. The report also proposes doubling the median annual rate of improvement in quality metrics tracked by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, and reducing the increase in per capita health care spending to the annual projected growth of the gross domestic product plus 0.5 percentage points. Together it estimates the proposals would save $893 billion over 10 years.
CMS suspends use of hospital outpatient quality measure
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has temporarily suspended use of outpatient quality measure OP-19, used to assess the percentage of emergency department patients who receive a transition record on discharge from the ED. Hospitals in the outpatient quality reporting program began collecting data for the measure in January for payment determination in calendar year 2013. According to CMS, the suspension is effective retroactive to January due to potential concerns with the measure specifications. Due to constraints on the CMS data processing system, hospitals in the outpatient quality reporting program must continue to submit a number for the measure, but may simply plug a “dummy” number into the field. CMS said it will not use, validate or publicly report data submitted for OP-19 “until all concerns are resolved and the measure specifications refined as necessary.”
New Equity of Care resource available
The Equity of Care initiative recently launched a monthly electronic newsletter to keep health care leaders apprised of the many issues affecting equity of care. To subscribe to the free publication or view the April edition online, please clickhere. Equity of Care is a national initiative to end health care disparities and increase the collection of race, ethnicity and language preference data; cultural competency training for clinicians and support staff; and diversity in governance and management.
CMS issues proposed rule for Medicaid minimum primary care payment
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has issued a proposed rule implementing a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requirement that Medicaid pay primary care physicians at least as much as Medicare for certain services provided in calendar years 2013 and 2014. The rule would apply to specified primary care services furnished by a physician with a specialty designation of family medicine, general internal medicine or pediatric medicine, and related subspecialists, for fee-for-service and Medicaid managed care payment arrangements. The rule also provides for a 100% federal matching rate for any increase in payment above the amounts that would be due for these services under the state Medicaid plan as of July 1, 2009. In addition, the proposed rule updates the interim regional maximum fees that providers may charge to administer pediatric vaccines to federally eligible children under the Vaccines for Children program. The proposed rule will be published in the May 11 Federal Register with comments accepted for 30 days.
CDC: Fewer older Americans being hospitalized for stroke
The stroke hospitalization rate decreased 20% or more over the past decade for patients 65 and over, while inpatient mortality declined, according to a new report by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. The hospitalization rate decreased 24% for patients aged 75-84 and 20% for other patients over 65. In addition, the proportion of stroke patients who died in the hospital fell to 5% in 2009 from 9% in 1989. Nearly 1 million patients were hospitalized for stroke in 2009, about the same as in 1999, about two-thirds of whom were 65 or older. Stroke prevention is important as the nation’s baby boomers age, as the stroke hospitalization rate increases with age, the report notes.
Report: More nurses serving in National Health Service Corps
The National Health Service Corps added 1,228 nurses between 2009 and 2011, according to a report released by the White House. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act includes $1.5 billion over five years to grow the NHSC, which provides scholarships and educational loan repayment for primary care providers who work in underserved areas, including nurse practitioners, certified nurse midwives and psychiatric nurse specialists. The report highlights ACA and other programs that support nurse education and training.
HPOE releases reports on population health, accountable care readiness
Two new guides from the American Hospital Association's Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative help hospitals and health systems achieve the goals of improving quality and efficiency of care delivery. “Managing Population Health: The Role of the Hospital,” defines population health, and describes essential strategies, including potential partnerships with other stakeholders, to improve the health of a hospital’s patient population. “Hospital Readiness for Population-based Accountable Care,” presents results from a 2011 national survey of all hospitals, conducted by HRET and supported by The Commonwealth Fund, to assess their current state of readiness for the development of accountable care organizations. The report also provides a tool for hospitals to gauge their own relative preparedness for ACO participation. To access these reports, please click here.
Study: Access to care declines over decade, especially for uninsured
Access to health care declined for adults under 65 in nearly every state over the past decade, especially among those without insurance, according to a new study by the Urban Institute. Between 2000 and 2010, the share of U.S. adults under 65 reporting unmet medical needs rose in 42 states; the share of adults reporting a routine check-up fell in 37 states; and the share of adults reporting a routine dental visit declined in 29 states. Only West Virginia and the District of Columbia did not experience a decline in at least one of the three measures over the decade. “This analysis suggests that the potential benefits of the coverage expansion in the Affordable Care Act are large and exist in every state,” the authors said. The findings are based on data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System.
NCHL invites hospitals to share innovative leadership development practices
Hospitals, health systems, medical group practices, insurers and suppliers are invited to submit a proposal to present their work at the National Center for Healthcare Leadership’s 2012 Human Capital Investment Conference, which will showcase effective and innovative practices to develop and deploy leaders that support an organization’s strategic goals. The sponsors are particularly interested in leadership programs/initiatives that focus on an operational strategic imperative for the organization, such as value, experience of care, quality and patient safety, care equity, organizational innovation, diversity and inclusion, recruitment and retention, and capacity building. Proposals for the Nov. 13 conference should be submitted online by May 25. For more information please click here.
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