PROMPT
In recent years, healthcare systems and consumers have focused on improving and sustaining healthcare quality. Low scores on these quality measures can result in reduced reimbursement from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMMS). In hospitals across the country, nurses are unclear about these quality measures and how they can impact patient outcomes:
-Care quality measures (AMI, CHF, PNU, and SCIP)
-National Patient Safety Goals
-Fall prevention measures
-Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems (HCAHPS) patient satisfaction scores
Patients treated in hospitals with higher quality scores based on HCAHPS and CMMS data are less likely to be readmitted and die within one year of admission than those treated for the same condition in a lower-quality hospital.
Visit these websites and compare two healthcare facilities in your geographical area. What differences do you see between the two facilities? Do you feel the general public should be able to access these quality scores and why? COMPARE HCA Healthcare Houston Kingwood Hospital and Houston Methodist Willowbrook Hospital
-The Joint Commission Quality Check- http://www.qualitycheck.org/consumer/searchQCR.aspxLinks to an external site.
-US News- http://health.usnews.com/best-hospitals/areaLinks to an external site.
-US Department of HHS (Hospital Compare)- http://hospitalcompare.hhs.gov/Links to an external site.
-National Patient Safety Goals- jointcommission.orgLinks to an external site.
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