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HospitalsStratis Health works toward its mission to improve health care quality and safety in hospitals through initiatives funded by federal and state government contracts, and community and foundation grants, including serving as Minnesota's Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO). We've worked with hospitals across the state to improve patient care and data reporting, and to integrate patient safety related technology—such as computer bar codes on patient wristbands and computerized physician orders—into their systems of care to reduce human errors and avoid dangerous medical mistakes. Hospitals had nation-leading results in quality measures, including 10 percent improvement statewide in measures of appropriate care in patients with a diagnosis of heart failure, acute myocardial infarction, or pneumonia. Eight of the nine hospitals assisted by Stratis Health through one of our technical assistance groups made progress toward implementing medication bar coding By integrating quality improvement processes into organizational culture, Stratis Health promoted an improved safety environment in nine rural critical access hospitals. They improved 2.4 percent from baseline to remeasurement on the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) Patient Safety Culture Survey Stratis Health supported transparency in health care quality and patient safety by working with all Minnesota hospitals to collect and submit quality data and by offering educational and technical assistance to them on the use of CMS reporting systems and tools. Minnesota had 100 percent reporting by Prospective Payment System (PPS) hospitals and 86 percent reporting by critical access hospitals (CAH), although not required. Stratis Health worked with hospitals across the state to reduce the incidence of improper fee-for-service inpatient acute care Medicare payments. We conducted data analysis and focused audits, and recommended system changes and improvement strategies. They experienced a 21.5 to 55.8 percent reduction in billing errors. The providers fine tuned clinical decision making, reduced payment problems, and lowered their compliance risk; which saved Medicare $1.5 million a year. RARE: Reducing Avoidable Readmissions EffectivelyStratis Health has joined with the Institute for Clinical Systems Improvement and the Minnesota Hospital Association, as Operating Partners to manage a Minnesota campaign to reduce avoidable hospital readmissions. The RARE Campaign is engaging hospitals and care providers across the continuum of care to prevent 4,000 avoidable hospital readmissions across Minnesota between July 1, 2011, and December 31, 2012. Doing so will alleviate the burden these readmissions place on patients and their families and will allow them the comfort and well being of staying in their own beds. For more information about RARE, go to the RARE website. Current QIO contractThrough its current three-year QIO contract with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which began on August 1, 2008, Stratis Health is deploying its scarce QIO resources and expertise to areas of highest need. Some of the work is more directive than in the past, targeting hospitals that meet specific, defined criteria to receive improvement assistance. Stratis Health provides training, clinical improvement technical assistance, organizational leadership assessment, and culture change support, with a focus on:
Stratis Health's has held three collaborative learning sessions for the group. Current QIO contract fact sheet (3-page PDF) A Patient Safety Success Story: Patient Safety Culture Change at Chippewa County Montevideo Hospital Statewide supportStratis Health provides statewide support that contributes to Minnesota's collaborative health care improvement environment, including support in hospital quality data reporting, abstraction, and validation. We are committed to supporting hospitals in their efforts to submit accurate, timely data for hospital quality data reporting, which ensures that patients and their families have access to timely patient safety data, hospitals have access to comparative patient safety data, and hospitals that are eligible for Medicare's annual payment update (APU) receive the full APU. Statewide hospital support includes the following activities:
ResourcesHospital Check-In Newsletter. Stratis Health provides hospitals with news and updates on quality improvement and patient safety information in our monthly Hospital Check-In electronic newsletter. It includes current quality and patient safety information, intervention tools, educational resources and trainings, and key Web links to assist hospitals in their quality improvement efforts. The newsletter also assists providers in understanding policies and programs initiated by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Recent issues of Hospital Check-In. Educational Recorded Webinar sessions sponsored by Stratis Health are available on a variety of topics, e.g. clinical topics, quality improvement, organizational change, using data, staff and resident satisfaction, etc. Fact sheets summarizing changes to inpatient clinical topics for April 4, 2011+ discharges: Minnesota e-Health Initiative. Public-private collaborative effort to improve health care quality, increase patient safety, reduce health care costs and enable individuals and communities to make the best possible health decisions by accelerating the adoption and use of health information technology. National Quality Forum. Voluntary consensus standards-setting body, created in 1999 as a unique public-private partnership QualityNet. Free online resource to motivate transformational change. Contact Stratis Health for assistance with your quality improvement and patient safety needs.If your hospital has projects it would like to work on, contact us to discuss how we can work together to support new initiatives. Abstraction Drug Safety and Pressure Ulcers Vicki Olson, program manager 952-853-8554 MRSA and SCIP/HF Utilization and Coding General Hospital Information National Helpdesk Contact |
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