| 7:30 – 8:30 |
Registration and Breakfast
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| 8:30 – 10:45 |
Rural Relevant Measures
How much time does YOUR hospital spend collecting data? This is an increasingly demanding task that drains valuable resources in small rural hospitals. In the first part of the program, we will explore the implications of rural-relevant measures for Critical Access Hospitals, looking at what hospitals currently report and what might be of most importance, including the implications for reimbursement.
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| 8:30 – 9:00 |
Rural Measures Project Presentation
VPQHC, W. Cyrus Jordan, MD, MPH - Medical Director
The Vermont Program for Quality in Health Care and the New England Rural Health RoundTable will propose a set of rural relevant and useful quality measures that can be used by Critical Access Hospitals to guide their quality improvement and benchmarking initiatives. The measurement set is derived from an inventory of current reporting requirements in the New England states and emerging national trends in the measurement of quality of care in rural settings.
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| 9:00 - 9:30 |
Representatives from Blue Cross, Anthem and CMS will discuss the latest information on performance-based reimbursement programs and their potential impact on small rural and Critical Access Hospitals
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| 9:30 – 10:15 |
How can you translate what you’ve heard from the previous speakers into actionable items for your hospital? In this segment, you will have an opportunity to meet with colleagues from your state to address issues of rural performance measures and reimbursement. |
| 10:15-10:45 |
What are other New England states doing? State breakout groups will share their activities and strategies with the full audience.
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| 10:45 – 11:00 |
Break
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| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Forum on Medication Management for Seniors
Policy makers and the administration are looking at the issue of Medication Management for Seniors as a potential opportunity for improving healthcare quality and reducing unnecessary cost. This session will explore the measures hospitals are taking to address these issues.
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| 11:00 – 12:30 |
Forum on Medication Management for Seniors (continued)
Overview
Larry Ramunno, MD, MPH, CDE; Chief Quality Officer, Northeast Health Care Quality Foundation
Dr. Ramunno will speak on Medication Management with a focus on preventing hospital readmission.
Matthew P. Fricker, Jr., MS, RPh, Program Director, Institute for Safe Medication Practices
Matt will discuss the following issues:
- Patient information (key elements of info about the patient) including medication reconciliation
- Communication
(including culture, verbal orders and order sets)
- Labeling and storage of medications
- Drug distribution model
- Drugs or drug classes associated with errors causing most harm (opiates, insulin at a minimum)
Other New England Critical Access Hospitals will be part of the forum panel discussing medical management for seniors.
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| 12:30 – 1:30 |
Lunch
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| 1:30 – 2:30 |
The Board's Role in Quality and Safety
Scott Goodspeed, DHA, FACHE, Principal, Stroudwater Associates
The board’s role in quality and safety is discussed in detail. This presentation highlights safety hazard probabilities; quality and its history; what best boards do and how they do it; six things boards can do to improve quality and safety and a segment on the board's use of dashboards. A Board toolkit based on Institute for Healthcare Improvement Boards on Board principles for improving quality and safety will be shared with participants.
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