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)
- Surgical Care
- Immunizations
- Patient Satisfaction
- Infection Prevention
- Prenatal Care
- Pediatrics
- Patient Safety/Quality Indicators
Mandatory National Quality Reporting
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS)
CMS requires health care providers to report on quality measures in the areas of AMI, heart failure, pneumonia, surgical care, hospital-acquired conditions, infection prevention, readmissions, mortality and structural 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 quarterly on any four of the following ten measures: heart failure, surgical procedures, pneumonia, heart attack (AMI), perinatal care, psychiatry, childhood asthma, outpatient surgery, emergency department and immunization.
For more information, view a quality reporting fact sheet.
To repeal certain hospital performance reporting requirements.
No related legislation.
OHA Names New CEO
December 6, 2011:
Mike Abrams, Executive Vice President and CEO of the Iowa Medical Society, was announced as the Ohio Hospital Association’s next President and CEO. Abrams will begin his tenure in February, following the December 31 retirement of Jim Castle, OHA’s President and CEO for 23 years.
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