Christiana Care Health System Earns Magnet Award in 2010


The American Nurses Credentialing Center (ANCC) recognizes Christiana Care Health System as a new Magnet Organization in 2010, which makes Christiana the first hospital in Delaware to achieve this designation.    » View Article (from www.advanceweb.com)

Nancy Crawford to Lead AHA's Section for Maternal and Child Health


The American Hospital Association is pleased to announce that Nancy Crawford, of Woman's Hospital of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, has been named 2010 Chair of the American Hospital Association's Section for Maternal & Child Health. Woman's Hospital is a long time NPIC/QAS member hospital.     » View News Release

Member Hospital Promotes Breast Cancer Awareness in Style

Employees at Providence St. Vincent Medical Center, in Portland, Oregon put together a video to help generate breast cancer awareness throughout their hospital system.  They had a lot of fun putting it together and hope it inspires others to join in the cause.     » View "The Pink Glove Dance" Video

Title IV: Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical
Health Act

Health information technology helps save lives and lower costs. This bill accomplishes four major goals that advance the use of health information technology (Health IT), such as electronic health records by:

• Requiring the government to take a leadership role to develop standards by 2010 that allow for the nationwide electronic exchange and use of health information to improve quality and coordination of care.


• Investing $20 billion in health information technology infrastructure and Medicare and Medicaid


• incentives to encourage doctors and hospitals to use HIT to electronically exchange patients’ health information.


• Saving the government $10 billion, and generating additional savings throughout the health sector, through improvements in quality of care and care coordination, and reductions in medical errors and duplicative care.


• Strengthening Federal privacy and security law to protect identifiable health information from misuse as the health care sector increases use of Health IT.

As a result of this legislation, the Congressional Budget Office estimates that approximately 90 percent of doctors and 70 percent of hospitals will be using comprehensive electronic health records within the next decade.

Exerpt from media release prepared by the Majority Staff of the Committees on Energy and Commerce, Ways and Means, and Science and Technology, January 16, 2009
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Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC receives award for reducing induction births

Magee-Womens Hospital of UPMC, an NPIC/QAS member hospital, uses their teamwork to effectively improve patient safety care by reducing their percentage of induction births.     » View Article

Impact of CRM-Based Team Training on Obstetric Outcomes and Clinicians' Patient Safety Attitudes

Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, an NPIC/QAS member hospital, has successfully implemented a Crew Resource Management-based training process on their obstetrics unit in an effort to reduce medical error.     » View Article

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