Eleven Individuals And Organizations Receive IPRO Quality Awards

Awards Given During IPRO's 34th Annual Meeting

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Jun 13, 2018, 04:06 ET

LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eleven New York health professionals, healthcare organizations, consumer advocates and community-based organizations have been recognized with IPRO's 2018 Quality Awards. The awards were given at IPRO's 34^th Annual Meeting, June 5, 2018 at the Garden City Hotel, Garden City, New York. IPRO is a national not-for-profit organization that works to improve the quality of healthcare.

"Our 2018 Quality Awardees represent a diverse group, but they have a common goal: to help improve the health of New Yorkers and the healthcare they receive," says IPRO Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President Clare B. Bradley, MD MPH. "We thank them for their efforts."

Awards were given for accomplishments on a range of quality-related initiatives:

Honoree	Location	Recognized for
Data Longjohn, MD Skope Medical Care, P.C.	Wyandanch, NY	Implementing Systems to Improve Patient Care
Louis A. Buzzeo, MD	Sleepy Hollow, NY	Continuous Quality Improvement, Patient & Family Engagement
Acacia Network	New York City and Buffalo, NY	10-Year Partnership with IPRO and Commitment to Everyone with Diabetes Counts Program
The Korean Community Services of Metropolitan New York, Inc.	Manhattan, Queens and Brooklyn, NY	Educating Korean Medicare Beneficiaries Living with Diabetes in Their Native Language in Partnership with IPRO
NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Methodist Hospital	Brooklyn, NY	Commitment to Educating Older Brooklynites About Diabetes Self-Management
Gale Grunert Lewis County General Hospital	Lowville, NY	Reducing Hospital's 30-Day Readmission Rate and Ongoing Collaboration with IPRO
Patricia Bomba, MD, MACP Excellus BlueCross BlueShield	Rochester, NY	National Leadership in Transforming End-of-Life Care Planning and Long-Term Collaboration with IPRO
Joe Caruso	Utica, NY	Passionate Commitment to Improving Public Sepsis Knowledge and Ensuring Voice of Consumer is Represented in IPRO's Quality Improvement Work
Al Cardillo Home Care Association of New York State	Albany, NY	Ongoing Commitment to Educating Home Health Professionals and Public About Sepsis
Alex Spyropoulos, MD, FACP, FCCP, FRCPC Northwell Health	Long Island and New York City	Championing Widespread Dissemination of Anticoagulation Management Best Practices
Glens Falls Hospital	Glens Falls, NY	Commitment to Quality Improvement in Anticoagulation Management and Sharing of Evidence-Based Best Practices Through Health Informatics Innovation

The meeting also featured keynote addresses by Dennis Wagner, MPA, who directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services' (CMS') Quality Improvement and Innovation Group, Kaiser Health News Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, and Marnie L. Doubek, MD, FAAFP, a family physician who became a national voice for sepsis awareness after her son, Zachary, developed this life-threatening condition.

To learn more about the work of the 2018 IPRO Quality Award winners, go to: https://ipro.org/about/ipro-quality-awards

About IPRO
IPRO is a national, not-for-profit healthcare organization that works with government agencies, providers and consumers to implement innovative programs that bring policy ideas to life. We do this by making creative use of clinical expertise, emerging technology, data solutions, and our diverse marketplace experience to make the healthcare system work better. Incorporated in 1983, IPRO is one of the nation's largest and most experienced healthcare quality improvement organizations. IPRO works in partnership with our clients to achieve their goals of improved, equitable, and cost-effective healthcare.

SOURCE IPRO