Teleconference To Focus on Top Performing Hospitals in CMS, Premier Inc. Pay-for-Performance Project
The Premier Inc. healthcare alliance will host a national teleconference on Wednesday, January 31, from 2-3 p.m. ET, featuring top performers from the second year of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS)/Premier Hospital Quality Incentive Demonstration (HQID) pay-for-performance project.
Rick Mace, VP for Clinical Services at Kettering Medical Center in Dayton, Ohio, and William Hathaway, MD, medical director of Heart Services at Mission Hospitals, Inc., in Asheville, NC, will join Premier Senior VP and General Manager Stephanie Alexander on the call, titled “Lessons from Top Performers in Year II of the Premier/CMS HQID P4P Project.”
According to second-year results released last week, more than 260 hospitals participating in the HQID project have raised overall quality by 11.8 percent in two years, based on their delivery of 30 nationally standardized and widely accepted care measures to patients in five clinical areas. Improvements in quality of care saved 1,284 acute myocardial infarction (heart attack) patients, and patients received approximately 150,000 additional recommended evidence-based clinical quality measures, such as smoking cessation, discharge instructions and pneumococcal vaccination.
Premier’s Advisor Live is a free monthly teleconference series providing information and discussion on important quality improvement and supply chain topics. To register, obtain additional information or access past audio recordings, visit www.premierinc.com/advisorlive or contact the Premier Solution Center at 800.805.4608.
About Premier Inc., recipient of the 2006 Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award
Serving 1,700 hospitals and 42,000 other healthcare sites, Premier Inc. is the largest healthcare alliance in the United States dedicated to improving patient outcomes while safely reducing the cost of care. Owned by not-for-profit hospitals, Premier operates the nation’s largest healthcare purchasing network, the most comprehensive repository of hospital clinical and financial information and one of the largest policy-holder owned, hospital professional liability risk-retention groups in healthcare. Headquartered in San Diego, Premier has offices in Charlotte, N.C. and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.premierinc.com.