Quality Reporting
Quality reporting on certain measures, established by state and federal guidelines, allows health care providers to provide the public with information on hospital safety, cost and quality.
Besides required federal and state reporting listed below, hospitals can voluntarily submit data to other national agencies. Hospitals report both process and outcome measures. Process measures evaluate how often a hospital gives recommended treatments for certain conditions or procedures. Outcome measures evaluate the results of care or treatment for those conditions or procedures.
Mandatory State Quality Reporting
House Bill 197, legislation enacted in 2006, requires hospitals to report on the following measures to the
Ohio Department of Health (ODH) twice a year (April 1 and Oct. 1):
- Heart Failure
- Pneumonia
- Heart Attack (AMI)
- Patient safety/quality indicators
Mandatory National Quality Reporting
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
CMS requires health care providers to report on 30 quality measures. Hospitals are also required to submit data for heart attack and chest pain patients transferred to another hospital and outpatient surgeries.
The Joint Commission
The Joint Commission requires health care providers to report on any four of eight measures out of heart failure, surgical procedures, pneumonia, heart attack (AMI), pregnancy, psychiatry, childhood asthma and outpatient surgery. Hospitals report data quarterly.
For more information, view a quality reporting fact sheet.
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Northeast Ohio Hospitals Improve Heart, Pneumonia and Surgical Care
July 15, 2010:
Thirty-four northeast Ohio hospitals have shown dramatic progress in improving health care quality including:
- a 7.6% improvement in providing all recommended care to pneumonia patients;
- a 13% improvement in providing all recommended care to heart failure patients;
- a 5.9% improvement in providing all recommended care to heart attack patients; and
- a 13.9% improvement in providing all recommended care to surgical patients.
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