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CDC releases short training videos to promote effective hand hygiene in health care settings
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in partnership with the AHA, has released a series of four short videos to help promote hand hygiene. The videos aim to engage and educate all personnel in effective hand hygiene, foster accountability, and advance continuous quality improvement.
AHA launches learning hub for health care quality leaders
AHA recently launched the Quality Collective, an exclusive peer-to-peer learning hub for health care quality leaders.
NQF accepting comments on potential Medicare quality measures
The National Quality Forum’s Measure Applications Partnership is accepting public comment through Dec. 7 at 6 p.m. ET on 52 performance measures CMS is considering for use in Medicare public reporting and payment programs.
Blog: Sustaining Quality Transparency While Accounting for COVID-19’s Unprecedented Challenges
Recent reports have mischaracterized Medicare’s proposals to account for the impact of COVID-19 in its quality measurement programs as “hiding” important and useful patient safety data from the public.
IRFs, LTCHs can review updated provider preview reports through April 6
Inpatient rehabilitation facilities and long-term care hospitals have until April 6 to access updated provider preview reports of their quality data.
CMS extends deadline to submit certain Medicare quality data, attest to interoperability
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has extended the deadline for eligible hospitals to submit calendar year 2021 electronic clinical quality measures to the Hospital Inpatient Quality Reporting Program and Medicare Promoting Interoperability Program from Feb. 28 to March 31, 2022.
Chair File: Leadership Rounds — Discussing Health Care Equity, Quality and Workforce with Maureen Bisognano, President Emerita and Senior Fellow, Institute for Healthcare Improvement
On this episode, I talk with Maureen Bisognano, a prominent authority on improving health care systems. Maureen served as Institute for Healthcare Improvement president and CEO for five years and IHI executive vice president and chief operating officer for 15 years.
CMS grants certain quality reporting exceptions for Hurricane Ida
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services granted certain Medicare quality reporting exceptions to acute-care hospitals, ambulatory surgical centers, prospective payment system-exempt cancer hospitals, inpatient psychiatric facilities, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals and skilled nursing facilities in counties affected by Hurricane Ida.
AHA comments on home health proposed rule for CY 2022
Commenting on the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ home health prospective payment system proposed rule for calendar year 2022, AHA expressed support for CMS’ decision to forego action in CY 2022 on a behavioral adjustment to the Patient Driven Grouping Model case-mix system, while asking the agency to continue doing so until the end of the COVID-19 public health emergency.
FDA approves new Alzheimer’s drug
The Food and Drug Administration approved Biogen’s Aduhelm to treat Alzheimer’s disease, the first new treatment approved for the disease since 2003.