Patient and resident safety and quality projects
Improving Individual Patient Care
As the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) for Oregon, Acumentra Health works with healthcare providers, patients, nursing home residents/families, and community stakeholders to improve care provided to Oregon Medicare beneficiaries and other patients and nursing home residents. In the current round of QIO initiatives, we are leading a range of local safety and quality initiatives through July 2014 to help hospitals and nursing homes prevent harm and provide appropriate care to every patient and resident.
- Oregon HAI Prevention Coalition—a learning and action network (LAN) addressing healthcare-associated infections
- Pressure Ulcer & Restraint Reduction Project—technical assistance to nursing homes
- Oregon Resident Safety & Quality Alliance—a LAN focused on nursing home safety and resident-centered care (2012)
- Patient Safety Pharmacy Collaborative (PSPC)—a LAN to engage pharmacy services and providers in reducing adverse drug events
In addition, Acumentra Health provides technical assistance to Oregon hospitals in Medicare's quality data reporting program.
Partnership for Patients
Acumentra Health's QIO initiatives support the Partnership for Patients, a public–private hospital-focused initiative launched in May 2011 by the Department of Health and Human Services. For more information, visit the Partnership for Patients website.
Oregon IHI Network
Acumentra Health is a member of the Oregon IHI Network (ORIHIN), a coalition of seven organizations that coordinates projects to improve patient safety. ORIHIN is currently engaged in work related to Project JOINTS (Joining Organizations IN Tackling SSIs).
Previous ORIHIN projects include disseminating and assessing use of the Surgical Safety Checklist in Oregon and supporting the 5 Million Lives hospital patient safety campaign led by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. A Joint Committee formed by ORIHIN and the Oregon leadership of the Advancing Excellence in America’s Nursing Homes campaign planned and developed the Transitional Care & Pressure Ulcers Project Toolkit, which provides Oregon Best Practices by care setting as well as a handoff dataset to ensure transfer of key information between settings.
More information
- Hospitals: reducing HAIs
- Reducing hospital readmissions
- Nursing homes: reducing healthcare-acquired conditions
- Reporting and Value-Based Purchasing
- Adverse drug events
- Physician office initiatives
- Medical case review
- Medicare improvement initiatives
- Impact of 9th SOW projects
- Acumentra Health services
Contact
- Patient safety initiatives:
Lynn Kemper
lkemper@acumentra.org 503-382-3949 - Quality data reporting:
Denise Phillips, RN, MSN, CHC
dphillips@acumentra.org 503-382-3973 - Oregon IHI Network:
Stacy Moritz, RN, MBA
smoritz@acumentra.org 503-382-3918
Last updated August 3, 2012