The New York State Budget for 2011-2012, passed on March 31, includes sweeping legislation that will dramatically alter the way New York pays for and delivers Medicaid services, particularly in home- and community-based settings. PHI, has been an active proponent for two key measures that were included in the budget: wage parity for home health aides, and care management models … Read More
New Institute Launches Institute for Person-Centered Living
The Consumer Consortium for Advancing Person-Centered Living (CCAL), and Sheryl Zimmerman, PhD, Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill are pleased to announce the formation of the national Institute for Person-Centered Living (IPCL). The Institute is an independent, nonprofit joint academic/consumer venture dedicated to advancing the philosophy and practices of person-centeredness across home and community-based (HCB) long-term … Read More
Summary of the CCTP and a taxonomy on Care Transitions
Dr. Joanne Lynn graciously provided the following summaries of the Community-Based Care Transitions Program (Section 3026) and CMS’s 10th Scope of Work for the Quality Improvement Organizations. Learning Topics for Care Transitions About the QIO contract for the 10th SOW About the CCTP
Health and Aging Policy Fellows annouces 2010-2011 application deadline
The Health and Aging Policy Fellows are accepting applications for the 2011-2012 year of the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program. Supported by The Atlantic Philanthropies, the Health and Aging Policy Fellows Program represents a collaboration between our staff at the Research Foundation for Mental Hygiene at Columbia Psychiatry and the American Political Science Association Congressional Fellowship Program. This national … Read More
HHS announces private-public alliance to improve transition of care
Health and Human Services Department Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced the creation of a new private-public alliance called Partnerships for Patients yesterday, saying it has the potential to prevent 1.8 million patient injuries and save the lives of 60,000 patients over the next three years. The program targets patients undergoing transitions of care, where patients are more susceptible to hospital-related infection … Read More
Community Coalitions: Pursuing Better Quality Health Care One Locality at a Time
The Alliance for Health Reform and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation are sponsoring a luncheon briefing being held on Friday, April 15th from 12:15 PM to 2 PM. Panelists will be: Robert Graham, National program director, Aligning Forces for Quality; Carolyn Clancy, AHRQ; Jim Chase, Minnesota Community Measurement; and David Kendrick, Greater Tulsa Health Access Network. Anne Weiss of the Robert Wood Johnson … Read More
National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care
The Affordable Care Act seeks to increase access to high-quality, affordable health care for all Americans. To that end, the law requires the Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to establish a National Strategy for Quality Improvement in Health Care (the National Quality Strategy) that sets priorities to guide this effort and includes a strategic plan … Read More
Reducing Revolving Door Hospital Readmissions
LTQA chair Mary Naylor and her colleagues Linda Aiken, Ellen Kurtzman, Danielle Olds and Karen Hirschman have authored a piece in the newest edition of Health Affairs called “The Importance of Transitional Care in Achieving Health Reform.” Currently, one in five elderly patients discharged from a hospital is readmitted within a month. Seeking to address the human and substantial financial … Read More
AHRQ’s releases new Care Coordination Measures Atlas
Last December, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality published its new Care Coordination Measures Atlas report. The Atlas, developed by the Stanford University Evidence Center, lists existing measures of care coordination, with a focus on ambulatory care, and presents a framework for understanding care coordination measurement. With the health care community struggling to determine how to measure the extent … Read More
Health Affairs launches “The Care Span”
With the support of The SCAN Foundation, Health Affairs has launched a new feature, “The Care Span”, a section that focuses on long term services and supports (LTSS). Bruce Chernoff, a member of the LTQA Board is President of The SCAN Foundation. In its March issue, the lead author of one of two featured articles was Susan Reinhard, LTQA board … Read More