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How Top Incentive-Earning Hospitals in CMS Quality Initiative Built Best Practices in Performance Improvement

Top 2006 incentive earners in CMS’ Premier Hospital Quality Improvement Demonstration program will share processes that translate into performance improvement and cash bonuses during an April 18, 2007 audio conference sponsored by the Healthcare Intelligence Network.

March 27, 2007

NEWS FACTS

• Of the 260 hospitals participating in the Hospital Quality Demonstration program, fewer than half shared in $8.6 million in recently awarded bonus payments -- Three top program performers, including the top-earning-hospital for two years running, will document their successes in performance improvement during an April 18, 2007 audio conference sponsored by the Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN).
  
  
• How to Structure a Healthcare Performance Improvement Process That Results in Incentive Payments features three quality leaders who report from the trenches of hospital quality improvement, relating how retooling processes, upgrading technology, courting the C-suite and engaging doctors and nurses helped earn them top bonuses in an ongoing hospital quality initiative. For conference details, please visit. Conference details.
  
  
• The Healthcare Intelligence Network (HIN) is sponsoring the 90-minute live interactive audio conference, which will highlight the efforts of hospitals on the forefront of quality improvement.
  
  
• Scheduled speakers: Presenting are Jim Benté, vice president of quality and organizational development at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, IL; Regina Berman, administrative director for performance improvement at Hackensack University Medical Center in New Jersey, the leading performer for two straight years; and Elizabeth Popwell, vice president of systems management at Cleveland County Healthcare System. Moderated by Melanie Matthews, HIN executive vice president and chief operating officer.
  
  
• Conference highlights: Establishing executive support to create and sustain a clinical performance program; fostering a culture of quality across all departments; making the internal changes needed to support a performance improvement program; creating a concurrent chart review program; operationalizing improvements from the PFP pilot; monitoring real-time key processes; and dedicating appropriate resources for performance improvement programs.
  
  
• Target Audience: CEOs, CFOs, chief medical officers, chief nursing officers, medical directors, quality improvement executives, performance improvement executives, disease management directors, managers and coordinators, health plan executives, care management nurses, strategic planning directors and human resources executives.
  
  
• Audio Conference formats: 90-minute live audio conference on April 18, 2007 includes a 30-minute Q&A; “On-Demand” re-broadcast available April 20, 2007; 90-minute recording on CD-ROM with printed transcript available May 10, 2007. Conference details.

QUOTES ATTRIBUTABLE TO MELANIE MATTHEWS, HIN EXECUTIVE VP AND COO:

Click here for Melanie Matthews's profile.

• "The Congressional mandate for Medicare to develop a plan to implement ‘value-based purchasing,’ which ties payment to quality of care and other outcomes, is just two years away,” stated Melanie Matthews, HIN executive vice president and chief operating officer. "In the meantime, the experiences of these top-performing hospitals can serve as a primer for all healthcare organizations wishing to improve both quality of care and cost-effectiveness ."

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