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OAHHS is proud to sponsor:
"Planning for the Future of Health Care" Regional Forums with Guest, OHA Director Bruce Goldberg, MD
(Open to the public)
For more information about the CCO Regional Forum, please contact the Oregonians for Healthy Communities Project at info@ccooregon.com.
May 15, 2012
11:30 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.
The Riverhouse, Bend
Register
The following meetings are for OAHHS members only:
Rural Health Reform Initiative
May 16, 2012
1:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Linda Lang, llang@oahhs.org
Oregon Psychiatric Inpatient Committee
May 31 - June 1, 2012
Patty O'Sullivan, posullivan@oahhs.org
Compliance Advisory Committee
June 5, 2012
9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
Linda Lang, llang@oahhs.org
Recovery Audit Contractor Meeting
June 5, 2012
1:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
Linda Lang, llang@oahhs.org
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John G. Hill will be PeaceHealth Oregon Region's CEO effective May 31.
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| Scott Kelly is the new CEO of Rogue Valley Medical Center Kelly was previously Asante's chief strategy and business development officer. |
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| Brian Gross, a cardiologist at Rogue Valley Medical Center was given the Carpenter Award, which recognizes community leaders who have had a positive impact on improving medical care in Jackson County. |
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| Grande Ronde Hospital received the 2011 Health Devices Achievement Award from ECRI Institute. |
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| Legacy Emanuel Medical Center recently celebrated its 100th anniversary. The hospital is currently featured in an exhibit at the Oregon History Museum. |
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| Catherine McAuley Chapel at Mercy Medical Center in Roseburg received a Merit Award for Liturgical Design by the national journal Faith and Form. |
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| Rogue Valley Medical Center earned a silver-level Beacon Award for Excellence from the American Association of Critical-Care Nurses. |
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| St. Charles Health System received a $5,000 grant from the Rite Aid Foundation to cover costs associated with Links4Health, a diabetes prevention and obesity awareness program for children. |
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| Dr. Linn Goldberg, chief of the Division of Health Promotion and Sports Medicine at OHSU, received the Lifetime Achievement Award from the President's Council on Fitness, Sports and Nutrition. |
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| Jim Diegel, president and CEO of St. Charles Health System, has been selected to serve as chairman of the editorial board of Healthcare Executive, a magazine published by the American College of Healthcare Executives. |
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Feds reach $1.9 billion deal with governor for health care transformation
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Gov. John Kitzhaber has secured an initial $620 million investment from the federal government, which will come to Oregon in 2013, with $1.9 billion expected over five years. The money will go toward the formation of Coordinated Care Organizations (CCOs).
The roughly 600,000 people enrolled in the state's Medicaid program will gain access to CCOs, designed to help patients maintain their health and stay on top of treatments for chronic medical conditions.
If it works, Oregon will save $11 billion over 10 years, Gov. Kitzhaber and U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement.
Click here to read a recent article from Modern Healthcare about Oregon's transformation efforts.
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 Caregivers get new resource for disclosing adverse events
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The Oregon Patient Safety Commission has released the Oregon Adverse Event Disclosure Guide – a resource intended to help Oregon’s physicians and health care organizations better understand the purpose of disclosure and develop and improve their disclosure programs.
Funded by a grant from The Regence Foundation, the guide provides perspectives and resources to help health care organizations meet Oregon’s requirement that written notification be provided to patients who experience a serious adverse event.
The State of Oregon requires that written notification be provided to patients as a part of its adverse event reporting program. Currently there is compliance about 50 percent of the time. As of September 2011, all 58 of Oregon's community hospitals are participating in the Commission's voluntary reporting program.
To learn more, click here.
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| Association members travel to D.C. to advocate for transformation support |
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This week a group of OAHHS members visited Oregon's congressional delegation in Washington, D.C. to advocate for hospitals during the annual American Hospital Association meeting. The trip gave hospital leaders an opportunity to educate Oregon's lawmakers about health care transformation, and CCOs in particular.
During the trip, Rep. Greg Walden joined the delegation for an evening reception and dinner, which was also attended by Sen. John McCain of Arizona.
In addition to CCO formation, Association members also discussed geographic variation, rural issues and hospital funding with Oregon lawmakers.
To read highlights of the annual AHA meeting, click here. To access OAHHS materials from the trip, click here.
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Four counties partner on shared community needs assessment
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The Multnomah County Health Department has been chosen as the convener of a single community health needs assessment (CHNA) for the four-county region of Washington, Multnomah, Clackamas and Clark counties. This approach will eliminate duplicate efforts and enable coordinated initiatives for improving health in the region.
This project was undertaken in January 2011 as a strategic initiative of OAHHS, which convened hospital members and county public health departments in the four-county region to develop and conduct a single community needs assessment.
The collaborative will eventually host a public-facing website that shows up-to-date health indicator data.
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CMS asked to halt RAC program in Oregon
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The OAHHS Compliance Advisory Committee has been working to address several concerns about how the Medicaid Recovery Audit Contractor (RAC) program is being conducted in Oregon, including additional administrative costs to hospitals, poor communication from RACs, and that the contractor is not adhering to the Statement of Work specified by CMS.
In an effort to resolve this long-running problem, the committee drafted a letter to CMS on behalf of the 58 member hospitals requesting an immediate suspension of RAC complex reviews and recoupments in Oregon until these issues are resolved.
To read the letter, click here.
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Partnership for Patients initiative launched in Oregon
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On Friday, May 11, OAHHS held a kick-off meeting for the 29 Oregon hospitals that have committed to the national Partnership for Patients (PfP) initiative.
The 65 event attendees heard opening remarks from Dr. Rob Thompson, chief medical and quality officer for Asante Health System, as well as a keynote address from Sheri Winsper, vice president of quality at the Health Research and Educational Trust (HRET).
PfP spans two years, with a focus on 10 areas for improvement, including OB adverse events and eliminating early elective deliveries, readmissions, falls, pressure ulcers, and others.
To help drive and spread the work in Oregon, an advisory committee has been formed. The committee includes Dr. Thompson, Karen Bales and Erva Zabel of Asante Health System; Patrice Chatterton and Dana Trocino of Kaiser Sunnyside Medical Center; Vicki Beck, Amy Guthrie and Jennifer Vig of Samaritan Health Services; Kari Coe and Tawnie McDonald from St. Charles Health System.
In addition, 18 Oregon hospitals are participating in "Hospital Engagement Networks" (HENs). This means that more than 80 percent of Oregon hospitals are engaged in the P4P work.
To learn more, click here.
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New award will recognize infection prevention leaders
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Hospitals can apply through Aug. 1 for a new award recognizing sustained improvement in preventing health care-associated infections, based on the concepts of the National Action Plan to Prevent Healthcare-Associated Infections.
Sponsored by the Department of Health and Human Services, Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology, and Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America, the Partnership for Prevention Award will honor prevention leaders in the U.S. acute care community who have achieved wide-scale reduction and progress toward eliminating targeted HAIs.
The inaugural award will be presented Oct. 15, during International Infection Prevention Week.
To apply, click here.
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| Study: Hospital EHR adoption increases, but gaps widen |
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The share of hospitals that have at least a basic electronic health record system increased to 26.6 percent in 2011 a significant jump from the 15.1 percent of hospitals with EHRs in 2010, according to a study published by Health Affairs.
However, the digital divide across types of hospitals widened. The gap in EHR adoption between large and small hospitals, for example, widened to 22 percentage points in 2011 from 15 percentage points in 2010, based on data from the AHA annual survey of health information technology adoption.
The study identified limited financial resources, constrained vendor capacity and a shortage of trained health information technology workers as likely barriers for the hospitals still working to adopt. Small, rural and non-teaching hospitals also were less likely to meet the study’s relaxed definition of Stage 1 Meaningful Use of EHRs.
To learn more, click here.
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