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Hospital-Acquired Conditions

Partnership for Patients Initiative to Improve Hospital Care

Hospitals across the country will have new resources and support to make healthcare safer and less costly by targeting and reducing the millions of preventable injuries and complications from healthcare-acquired conditions, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services ...More
December 21, 2011
Posted in News
Up to $500 Million in Affordable Care Act Funding Will Help Health Providers Improve Care

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced that up to $500 million in Partnership for Patients funding will be available to help hospitals, healthcare provider organizations and others improve care and stop millions of preventable injuries and ...More
June 22, 2011
Posted in News
HHS Announces National Campaign to Improve Patient Safety

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today a initiative to improve patient safety in hospitals across the country. The "Partnership for Patients" is a collaborative effort between the federal government, hospitals, care providers and community ...More
April 12, 2011
Posted in News
Medline Signs Agreement With the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare

Medline Industries, Inc. announces that it has signed an agreement with the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare to contribute financially to the Center's Endowment Fund. The Center for Transforming Healthcare was developed to help solve healthcare's most ...More
November 8, 2010
Posted in News
Medline Funds Grants Aimed at Reducing Risks Associated With Hospital-Acquired Conditions

Medline Industries, Inc. announces today that it is funding 10 new research projects in its second round of Prevention Above All Discoveries Grants focused on reducing the medical risks and harms associated with hospital-acquired conditions. To date the program has provided ...More
November 1, 2010
Posted in News
Reminding Staff to Remove Catheters Reduces Infections by Half

Researchers found the most common hospital-acquired infection is significantly reduced with simple, low-cost interventions. ...More
August 16, 2010
Posted in News
Research Project to Assess Impact of Non-Payment for Avoidable Infectious Complications

The Preventing Avoidable Infectious Complications by Adjusting Payment (PAICAP), a research project funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality is being conducted by researchers at Harvard Medical School and Harvard School of Public Health. The goal of the ...More
August 9, 2010
Posted in News
In the Aftermath of 2008 CMS Rule, Hospitals Seek to Prevent Infections, Retain Reimbursement

It has been about 14 months since a new directive from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) went into effect Oct. 1, 2008, essentially declaring that Medicare will no longer reimburse hospitals for extra costs related to certain infections acquired during a ...More
December 18, 2009
Posted in Articles
Smarter Risk Identification and Prevention Around Key Respiratory Care Challenges

Patient safety and financial efficiency are not incompatible goals. In fact, they are often complementary. One goal of risk management is to reduce the probability that adverse outcomes will occur and lead to liability exposure. Accomplishing this mission will likely lead ...More
May 27, 2009
Posted in Articles, Disinfection & Sterilization, PPE & Standard Precautions
JCR to Host Hospital-Acquired Conditions Conference

New Medicare financial incentives have many hospitals scrambling to find solutions to common problems such as surgical site infections, catheter-associated urinary tract infections, pressure ulcers and falls. The event, Hospital-Acquired Conditions: Solutions to ...More
April 21, 2009
Posted in News

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