LTQA Webinars

LTQA recently held two exciting webinars that described LTSS and the impact of transitions on older adults receiving long term services and supports (LTSS); Examined the impact of the Affordable Care Act on improving care transitions for older adults receiving LTSS; Discussed the opportunities and threats presented by three provisions  for improving care transitions; and Described short- and long-term policy … Read More

New Study Examines Impact of Three ACA Provisions

Older adults receiving long-term services and supports (LTSS) face huge challenges in navigating the fragmented health care system in the US.  Multiple transitions among providers can have serious, negative consequences for this population.  The Affordable Care Act (ACA) established programs to attempt to address some of these hurdles, and while they show promise, a new study finds that there are … Read More

Measurement Opportunities & Gaps

The Quality Measurement Workgroup of the Long-Term Quality Alliance is please to announce the release of their first report on measurement opportunities and gaps in transitional care.  Click here to download the report.

2012 Annual Meeting

Slides from LTQA’s 2012 Annual Meeting are now available.  Click here to access the slides.

Innovative Communities Summit Final Report

LTQA’s 2nd Innovative Communities Summit gathered a variety of leaders to explore how the alliance can support Innovative Communities and how these communities can work together to improve care transitions and reduce unnecessary rehospitalizations. The wealth of knowledge and experience in evidence during this gathering was truly impressive. Summit participants represented 20 Innovative Communities, 20 federal agencies and 15 state … Read More

National Quality Forum to host 2nd Webinar in the Patient Safety Webinar Series

Recently, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) launched the Partnership for Patients initiative to dramatically improve patient safety across the country. This initiative will engage stakeholders from the private and public sectors to reduce healthcare acquired conditions and hospital readmissions. In an effort to assist and facilitate learning among hospital leaders, clinicians, healthcare providers, consumers, purchasers, health plans and … 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

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

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

LTQA/Brookings Meeting

The LTQA and The Brookings Institution are hosting a meeting on 3-11-11 around the issues of care coordination, transition management and palliative care.  The group of palliative care measurement experts convening in the afternoon of March 11 have been working together by telephone and e-mail for the past 6 months in response to the planned NQF call for palliative care measures … Read More