Quality

May 2011: Heart Failure & Heart Attack Quality Data Performance

Wed, 25 May 2011 09:07:14 GMT

This data brief provides information on how NAPH members as a group perform on publicly-reported measures of care for patients with heart failure and heart attack.

January 2011: The Patient Safety Initiative at America's Public Hospitals: The Year One Overview

Wed, 12 Jan 2011 14:40:06 GMT

Through a generous grant from the Kaiser Permenente Community Benefit Fund, NAPH partnered with the National Patient Safety Foundation (NPSF) to offer The Patient Safety Initiative at America's Public Hospitals. This brief summarizes projects and activities that NAPH members implemented as part of this program and how they were able to achieve various patient safety goals.

June 2010: NAPH Members Continue to Improve on Key Quality Measures

Thu, 23 Dec 2010 12:51:40 GMT

NAPH continuously tracks member performance on publicly reported quality measures. This Research Brief looks at the latest data release on CMS's Hospital Compare website and analyzes longitudinal trends between the averaged NAPH member scores and the averaged U.S. hospital scores. It concludes that NAPH members continue to outperform non-members on most core measures.

February 2010: Safety Net Hospitals Establish "Medical Homes"

Thu, 23 Sep 2010 09:56:13 GMT

This Research Brief on safety net hospital and health system implementation of the medical home model of care provides an overview of NAPH member medical home programs and identifies common characteristics of such programs. It also shares evidence from the literature about the efficacy of medical homes in improving quality of care and reducing both costs and emergency department visits.

December 2009: NAPH Members Embrace Transparency in Quality Performance

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:23:47 GMT

The brief provides an overview of members' efforts to share their quality data both internally (with hospital staff, board members, and executives), as well as externally (with patients and community members). The report provides information on the trend of external transparency in public hospitals, the practices that they have implemented to be more transparent, and the impact that transparency has had on five member hospitals that are leaders in this area.

September 2009: CMS Releases Latest Quality Data: NAPH Members Outperform on Most Core Measures

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:29:35 GMT

This research brief analyses CMS's July 2009 release of hospital performance scores on Hospital Compare. Specifically, the analysis compares aggregated NAPH members' scores with those of hospitals nationally and discusses data trends over time.

June 2009: NAPH Influence and Involvement in the National Quality Forum

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:24:37 GMT

This Research Brief describes NAPH's involvement with National Quality Forum(NQF) activities and provides information to increase member involvement in the NQF consensus development process.

June 2009: Kaiser Scholarships Help NAPH Members Reach Quality Goals

Thu, 29 Jul 2010 11:28:43 GMT

NAPH and its research affiliate, the National Public Health and Hospital Institute (NPHHI), publish a series of Research Briefs that inform NAPH members and share innovative and important practices among NAPH members. This Research Brief describes a special member benefit that has made a significant contribution to NAPH's quality improvement agenda.

October 2008: HCAHPS Survey: Patients' Perspective of Care

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:25:31 GMT

Patient satisfaction is an increasingly critical piece of how hospitals and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) measure quality of care. Indeed, CMS has recently begun publicly reporting results of a patient satisfaction survey, called the "Hospital Consumer Assessment of Healthcare Providers and Systems" (or "HCAHPS"). This Research Brief explores factors leading to HCAHPS development and its fiscal implications, as well as performance of NAPH member hospitals in the initial data reporting periods.

June 2007: NAPH Members Perform Well on CMS Core Measures

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:41:02 GMT

As part of its ongoing commitment to quality improvement, NAPH has been analyzing member-versus-national hospital performance on the 21 key measures that the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) is using in its Medicare "pay-for-reporting" effort. These measures cover four clinical conditions: heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, and surgical care infection prevention. NAPH's analysis concludes that its members score well across the board, particularly on CMS's cardiovascular measures.

October 2006: Quality Measures: A Major Focus for NAPH

Wed, 28 Jul 2010 17:45:51 GMT

This Research Brief summarizes the hospital quality measurement development process. It also reviews recommended measures by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) and describes current NAPH activities around quality improvement.