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Current
Reporting & Activities |
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National Reporting - This hospital
participates in reporting data to: |
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The Joint Commission on Accreditation
of Healthcare Organizations (TJC) |
YES |
A national organization
that develops standards or rules for good quality
and safe health care. Health care organizations then
pay a fee to The Joint Commission to review their
hospital practices and inform them on how well they
meet these standards. This visit is known as a “The
Joint Commission Survey.” Official approval is
given to hospita ls that meet these standards. As
a part of accreditation, the hospitals study and collect
data on certain quality measures. |
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Centers for Medicare and Medicaid
Services (CMS) |
YES |
This federal agency manages the Medicare
program. In addition, CMS contracts within a State
to run the Medicaid program. CMS works to make sure
that the beneficiaries in these programs are able
to get high quality health care. |
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American Hospital Association
(AHA) |
YES |
A national organization that represents
and serves all types of hospitals, health care networks,
and their patients and communities. Close to 5,000
hospitals, health care systems, networks, other providers
of care and 37,000 individual members come together
to form the AHA. |
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Statewide Reporting - This hospital
participates in reporting to: |
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The Partnership for Health &
Accountability
(PHA) |
YES |
PHA is a statewide program
that brings together the Georgia Hospital Association,
hospitals, providers, health care groups, payers,
employers, and community leaders. The goal of PHA
is to make health care better and safer by promoting
the use of evidence-based guidelines or other best
practices that reduce medication errors and significant
patient safety issues (falls, bedsores, wrong site
surgery). The program promotes voluntary sharing,
studying, and learning from others to reduce the risk
of errors or adverse outcomes. |
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Safe Medication Use Reporting
(SMU)
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YES |
Hospitals submit safe medication
use reports annually to PHA:
1. They report their top 3 medication errors
2. Create an improvement plan and work on improving
one or more of their top three errors.
3. Evaluate how their improvement plan worked to
decrease medication errors.
These reports are used to monitor medication safety
trends and share successful strategies to improve
medication safety in Georgia hospitals. "YES"
shows that this hospital is current with safe medication
error improvement reporting.
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