IPRO Presents Healthcare Quality Awards
Awards Given at 33rd Annual Meeting
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., July 13, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eight New York healthcare professionals, providers, health policy groups and social service organizations have been named recipients of the 2017 IPRO Quality Awards. The awards, given annually by IPRO, recognize organizations and professionals that demonstrate a commitment to improving the quality of care provided to New York's Medicare beneficiaries. IPRO is the Medicare Quality Innovation Network – Quality Improvement Organization (QIN-QIO) for New York State and lead organization in the Atlantic Quality Innovation Network (AQIN). The awards were given during IPRO's 33rd Annual Membership Meeting, June 6th at the LaGuardia Marriott Hotel.
"These awardees represent a diverse array of professionals and organizations, working with IPRO in such areas as diabetes self-management education, sepsis awareness, improving transitions of care, and facilitating end-of-life care discussions between healthcare professionals and their patients," says Clare B. Bradley MD, MPH, Senior Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, IPRO. "New York's Medicare beneficiaries, and New Yorkers of all ages, are better off due to their efforts."
Awards were given for accomplishments on a range of quality-related projects:
AWARD RECIPIENTS
| Organization/Individual |
NY State Location(s) |
Commendation Given For: |
| Amy Bowerman, RN Director of Quality Improvement, VNA of Utica and Oneida County Director of Patient Services, Senior Network Health HCA Quality Committee, HCA Sepsis Workgroup Leader |
Oneida County |
Leading the Home Care Association of New York State's efforts to develop and create an Adult Sepsis Screening Tool
IPRO Project: Community-Based Sepsis Initiative |
| Conversations: Health and Treatment (CHAT) A partnership between The Gitenstein Institute for Health Law and Policy at the Maurice A. Deane School of Law at Hofstra University; Northwell Health; and metro New York communities |
Nassau and |
Educating and empowering Medicare beneficiaries, caregivers and providers about the importance of advance care planning
IPRO Project: Transforming End of Life Care Initiative |
| John T. Mather Memorial Hospital |
Port Jefferson |
Being the first hospital on Long Island to "go live" with the electronic Medical Orders for Life Sustaining Treatment (eMOLST) registry, and the first to significantly integrate eMOLST into its electronic medical record system
IPRO Project: Transforming End of Life Care Initiative |
| Putnam Hospital Center - HEALTHQUEST |
Putnam |
Implementation of hospital-wide protocols, education, training and interventions to support prompt identification and treatment of sepsis
IPRO Project: Community-Based Sepsis Initiative |
| Regional Aid for Interim Needs, Inc. (R.A.I.N.)
A social service organization providing a range of services in the Bronx and Manhattan to seniors and those with disabilities |
Bronx |
Creation of a diabetes self-management program in order to educate and empower people with diabetes and help them control their disease
IPRO Project: Everyone with Diabetes Counts |
| St. Luke's Cornwall Hospital |
Orange County |
Reducing its 30-day readmission rate for Medicare fee-for-service patients from 25% to 14% for those discharged to home care, and from 24% to 19% for those discharged to home health facilities, through efforts to improve transitions of care
IPRO Project: Care Coordination |
| Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center Elder Law Clinic Aging and Longevity Law Institute |
Suffolk County |
Providing educational programs on end-of-life care for seniors in Suffolk County Section 8 housing
IPRO Project: Transforming End of Life Care Initiative |
| Wingate Healthcare's Wingate at Ulster and Wingate at Beacon |
Ulster, Beacon |
Implementing a Transitional Care Model, resulting in improved quality of care, increased physician involvement in care management and reduced caregiver strain, as well as a reduction from 28% to 9% in hospital readmission rates from skilled nursing facilities
IPRO Project: Care Coordination |
For more information on the honorees, please go to http://ipro.org/about/ipro-quality-awards
In addition to the awards ceremony, the annual meeting featured addresses by Carl Flatley, DDS, MSD, Founder, Sepsis Alliance; Marcus Friedrich, MD, MBA, Medical Director, Office of Quality and Patient Safety, New York State Department of Health; and Susan Dentzer, CEO, Network for Excellence in Health Innovation.
About IPRO - IPRO is a non-profit organization that works with government agencies, providers and consumers to implement innovative programs that bring policy ideas to life. For more information, visit ipro.org.
SOURCE IPRO
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