RESOURCE: Small, rural hospitals lag on some quality measures
Although fewer people are dying shortly after treatment for heart attacks, heart failure and pneumonia at most U.S. hospitals than a decade ago, the same trend doesn’t apply to certain small, rural facilities, a new study suggests.
So-called critical access hospitals – which have no more than 25 beds and are typically miles from the nearest other hospital – are exempt from reporting those sort of quality and outcomes data to the government.
via Small, rural hospitals lag on some quality measures – chicagotribune.com.
Written by Brian S McGowan, PhD
Dr. McGowan has served in leadership positions in numerous medical educational organizations and commercial supporters and is a Fellow of the Alliance (FACEhp). He founded the Outcomes Standardization Project, launched and hosted the Alliance Podcast, and most recently launched and hosts the JCEHP Emerging Best Practices in CPD podcast. In 2012 he Co-Founded ArcheMedX, Inc, a healthcare informatics and e-learning company to apply his research in practice.
