Quality & Patient Safety
The Food and Drug Administration yesterday alerted pharmacy and nursing professionals to a voluntary recall of seven lots of an injectable drug used to treat certain serious bacterial infections, which may contain glass particulate matter. The Teva Pharmaceuticals Amikacin Sulfate Injection…
Over the strong objections of the hospital field, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released its new star ratings for hospitals on the Hospital Compare website. “The new CMS star ratings program is confusing for patients and families trying to choose the best hospital to meet…
Over the strong objections of the hospital field, CMS today released its new star ratings for hospitals on the Hospital Compare website.
Reps. Jim Renacci, R-Ohio, and Kathleen Rice, D-N.Y., yesterday introduced a bill to delay for at least one year the introduction of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS) new hospital star ratings to ensure the ratings are fair and reliable.
The Hospital Quality Rating…
Reps. Jim Renacci (R-OH) and Kathleen Rice (D-NY) today introduced a bill to delay for at least one year the introduction of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ new hospital star ratings to ensure the ratings are fair and reliable. The Hospital Quality Rating Transparency Act of 2016…
Reps. Jim Renacci (R-OH) and Kathleen Rice (D-NY) have introduced a bill to delay for at least one year the introduction of the CMS new hospital star ratings.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today released data on the national distribution of overall hospital quality star ratings and by hospital characteristics, including bed size, teaching status, safety-net status, eligibility for Disproportionate Share Hospital payments and…
The ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association (AHA) today announced that Memorial Medical Center, based in Springfield, Ill., has been named as the 2016 recipient of the ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize.
The AHA, Association of American Medical Colleges, America’s Essential Hospitals, and Federation of ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿s today urged the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services to share additional information with hospitals and the public about how accurately its overall hospital quality star…