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Louisiana Health Care
Review
THE MEDICARE
QUALITY IMPROVEMENT ORGANIZATION |
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Health Care
Leaders Emphasize Quality in Delivery and Measurement |
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BATON ROUGE, La. (April 14, 2008) -
Louisiana Health Care Review hosted nearly 300 people on April
14 at its 1st Louisiana Health Care Quality Summit at the Hilton
Baton Rouge Capital Center Hotel. The event brought together
providers from nursing homes, hospitals, home health agencies,
physicians’ practices and policy makers to discuss quality
initiatives now underway and how to improve the current state of
health care delivery.
“Health care
quality improvement is hard work,” said Gary Curtis, CEO of
LHCR. “Today we hope to increase the momentum of health
quality improvement in general in Louisiana, and to illustrate
concrete methods that providers have |
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successfully used
to put these improvements in place. LHCR quality improvement
specialists are in contact with Louisiana providers around
100,000 times each year. Working together, Louisiana health care
quality is measurably better.”
Curtis told attendees that despite recent national reports
placing Louisiana near the bottom of rankings, Louisiana
providers are actually making great strides in many specific
areas. In fact, Louisiana ranked number one in the nation for
percent of seniors 65 and older receiving pneumonia
vaccinations, according to the 2007 State Snapshots report from
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"The story
today is don’t get too depressed by those headlines,” added
Curtis. “While we are not where we want to be, Louisiana
providers are making positive progress and it shows.”
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Attendees also heard from Louisiana Department of Health and
Hospitals Secretary Alan Levine, Joe McCannon, vice president at
the Institute for Healthcare Improvement, Stephen Harden, a
TOPGUN pilot and health care safety trainer, and a panel of
health care experts and elected officials. |
IHI's Joe McCannon |
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The Health Care Quality Awards |
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Click here to read a complete recap of the
day. |
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For
more
Quality Improvement
resources, visit
www.medqic.org |
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