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Health Care Quality & Safety February 26, 2013
Thomas E. Hamilton, DirectorSurvey & Certification Group
Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
Essential Role of Territorial Leadership
Medicare & Medicaid Participation is … Conditional
• Conditions of Participation (CoPs)• Hospitals … 42 CFR 482
• Nursing Homes … 42 CFR 483
• Dialysis Facilities … 42 CFR 494
• Ambulatory Surgical Centers … 42 CFR 416
• Clinical Laboratories … 42 CFR 493
• Essential Quality of Care & Safety Requirements• Governance
• Staffing and Credentialing
• Practice Standards – safe environment, informed patients, …
• QAPI – Internal Quality Assessment + Performance Improvement
Why Survey & Certification??
• Quality Assurance - Medicare + Parts of Medicaid• 200,000 Providers, 100,000 Onsite Surveys +
Investigations - 7,000 Surveyors
•Hospitals (Acute, Psychiatric, Organ Transplant, Critical Access)
•Nursing Homes
•Clinical Laboratories
•Home Health
•Dialysis Facilities
•Hospice
•Outpatient Physical Therapy
•Comprehensive Outpatient Rehab.
•Rural Health Clinics
•Ambulatory Surgical Centers
•Organ Procurement (OPOs)
•ICFs-IID
•Accrediting Organizations
•Clinical Laboratories
Clinical Laboratories
Test Type Desirable Range
• Creatinine …. (0.5 - 1.6)
• Uric Acid ……. (3.5 – 8.4)
• Calcium …….. (8.6 – 10.6)
• Albumin ……... (3.7 – 5.2)
• Globulin …….. (1.4 – 4.5)
Health Care – What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Up, Up, and Awry!!
• Wrong Site Surgeries
• Healthcare-Associated Infections
• Medication Errors … Complications
“If your remember,
I did say there might
be side effects…”
Today’s Health Care
• Highly Complex and Sophisticated
• More Dependent on … Teamwork
• Performed by … Human Beings
• “To Err is Human” – Institute of Medicine
• Human Factors Engineering
• Focus on the System
What Might Governors Do?
1. Hospital Governance2. Leadership + Management3. Finance
• Funding» Local Funds» Medicaid Matching Funds» Medicaid Certified Public Expenditures» Medicaid Expansion
• Billing Systems» Coding Systems (e.g., Medicare coding)» Private Insurance
Case: 1-Year Lung Graft SurvivalP A T U
82.3%80.9%79.9%79.6%77.4%
80.8%81.2%79.4%79.9%83.6%
65.3%68.1%
59.7%58.5%58.1%61.0%
67.3%
72.4%75.9%
73.3%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Jul-12
Jan-12
Jul-11
Jan-11
Jul-10
Jan-10
Jul-09
Jan-09
Jul-08
Jan-08
Expected Graft SurvivalActual Graft Survival
Is Your Board Sending the Wrong Signals ?Is Your Board Sending the Wrong Signals ?
Keeping Informed
Systems – Require Regular Reporting on:1. Hospital Finances, Billing, Liabilities2. Quality (e.g., Check the CMS “Compare” websites) 3. Involvement in National Initiatives – Examples:
• Value-Based Purchasing– http://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Quality-Initiatives-Patient-Assessment-Instruments/hospital-value-based-
purchasing/index.html?redirect=/hospital-value-based-purchasing/
• Partnership for Patients– http://innovation.cms.gov/initiatives/Partnership-for-
Patients/– http://hret-hen.org/
• Institute for Healthcare Improvement– http://www.ihi.org
Keeping Informed With
4. Governance + Leadership– http://www.governanceinstitute.com
Welcome the Bad News Bearers– To Avoid becoming a Bad News Bear– QAPI
5. CMS and Accrediting Organization Surveys• Instruct Providers to Alert You on Every Survey• Immediate Jeopardy – 23 Days to Medicare Termination• “Condition” Level Deficiency – 90 Days + Onsite Revisit• Other “Standard” Level Deficiencies – Plan of Correction
Thank You
• Attention to Health Care Quality
• Attention to Access to Health Care
• Efforts to Expand both Access + Quality
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