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| • | Hospitals | | http://hospitals.tmf.org/Hospitals/tabid/306/Default.aspx | | Take advantage of the opportunities TMF offers to help hospitals improve care, meet quality-related accreditation and regulatory requirements, and improve the bottom line. Find tools and resources to improve health care processes while maintaining operational efficiencies. |
| • | SCIP | | http://hospitals.tmf.org/SCIP/tabid/677/Default.aspx | | The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) is a national quality partnership of organizations focused on reducing the incidence of surgical complications. Surgical complications not only lead to worse patient outcomes, but also have an impact on the overall costs of health care, increasing length of stay, readmission rates, hospital costs and mortality. |
| • | SCIP Quality Indicators | | | http://hospitals.tmf.org/SCIP/SCIPQualityIndicators/tabid/678/Default.aspx | | | SCIP quality indicators/measures are based on scientific evidence and can reflect guidelines, standards of care or practice parameters. They convert medical information from patient records into a rate or percentage for consumers to use in comparing care at different hospitals and for hospitals to use in comparing their care with state and national benchmarks. |
| • | Data Collection & Reporting | | http://hospitals.tmf.org/DataCollectionReporting/tabid/680/Default.aspx | | TMF can assist hospitals with the process of data collection and submission to the QIO clinical data warehouse through My QualityNet using the CMS Abstraction & Reporting Tool (CART). Hospitals may also use a Joint Commission vendor for public reporting of core measures data for the Annual Payment Update. |
| • | Award | | http://hospitals.tmf.orgjavascript:window.open('http://award.tmf.org'); | | The 2008-2009 Texas Health Care Quality Improvement Award is a non-competitive award designed to build on the quality of care that hospitals already provide for their patients. TMF established the award program in partnership with the Texas Hospital Association, Texas Medical Association, Texas Organization of Rural and Community Hospitals and Texas Osteopathic Medical Association. |
| • | Resources | | http://hospitals.tmf.org/Resources/tabid/685/Default.aspx | | A number of resources are freely available for download. These tools are providemeasures in-service, core measures hospital in-service, IHI 5 million lives campaign resources, IHI five million lives campaign resources, IHI 5 mil, MedQIC resources, Medicare quality improvement community resources, MedQIC, national quality improvement priority topics, surgical care improvement project indicators, SCIP indicators, SCIP measures, implications of non-compliance, SCIP non-compliance, Mark Michelman, M |
| • | PEPPER Resources | | http://hospitals.tmf.orghttp://www.pepperresources.org | | Describes purpose of PEPPERResources, that PEPPER data reports are to be provided to short-term and long-term acute care hospitals, QualityNet exchange will be used to distribute PEPPERs, hospitals need to be registered through QualityNet to receive PEPPERs |
| • | Care Transitions Project | | http://hospitals.tmf.orghttp://caretransitions.tmf.org | | Care Transitions is a project through the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Its goal is to reduce the rate of avoidable re-hospitalization by improving patients’ transitions across care settings. |
| • | Contact Us | | http://hospitals.tmf.org/ContactUs/tabid/698/Default.aspx | | For more information on TMF’s Hospital Quality Improvement (HOQI) initiative, contact Becky Heinsohn, RN, CPHQ, director hospital quality improvement at bheinsohn@txqio.sdps.org or 1-866-439-0863 (phone) or 1-512-334-1809 (fax). |
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