Quality

Upcoming Events

Continuing to Prepare for the Transition to ICD-10 Webinar - May 21

Executive level briefing. For more information, contact the KHA Education Department at ccarney@kha-net.org or (785) 233-7436.

HAK District Meeting - District 2 - May 22

For more information, contact Amy Fluke at afluke@kha-net.org or (785) 233-7436.

Overview of the 2013 Medicaid DSH Program Webinar - May 23

Important Note: We encourage all Prospective Payment System hospitals to participate in this webinar, even though your hospital may not qualify for Medicaid DSH. For more information regarding this program, contact the KHA Education Department at (785) 233-7436.

HCAHPS Learning Network Webinar - May 24

For more information regarding this program, contact Deborah Stern at (785) 233-7436.

KHA Board Retreat - May 30-June 1

For more information regarding the KHA Board Retreat, contact Amy Fluke (afluke@kha-net.org) or Jennifer Findley (jfindley@kha-net.org) at (785) 233-7436.

Quality

Quality and Patient Safety is one of KHA's Strategic Issues.

QIP

KHA is a sponsor for the MHA/QI Project. The QI Project assists organization leadership in overseeing patient care quality and identifies opportunities for improvement.

QHi

QHi is a multi-state benchmarking project designed by small rural Kansas hospitals to evaluate and compare their clinical and operational performance. The Web-based tool includes a dashboard and reporting application where hospitals create self-defined peer groups for comparison and benchmarking. The growth of the user driven QHi program has exceeded expectations and is now being used by more than 195 hospitals in 12 states, including 60 hospitals in Kansas. For more information, contact Sally Perkins at (785) 233-7436.

Immunizations of Hospital Health Care Workers

2010 marked the beginning of a four-year campaign by the Kansas Healthcare Collaborative* to increase the number of hospital health care workers receiving yearly influenza vaccinations as part of the effort to decrease health care associated infections.This effort to reduce the spread of influenza and to protect the health of both patients and health care workers recommended that all health care workers, including medical staff, receive the seasonal influenza vaccine.

KHC established a statewide goal to increase the Kansas hospital health care worker seasonal influenza immunization rate to 100 percent by 2014. Kansas hospitals continue to make progress towards this goal. In a survey conducted in 2011, results indicated that 78 percent of hospital health care workers, including medical staff, were vaccinated against seasonal influenza for the 2010-2011 flu season.