State's home health care ranked among the worst

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  March 21, 2006 ;     564 words ......state's home health care agencies...11 of 12 quality measures, according...specific quality measures. The quality measures for home health care, for example...regulates home health care agencies...improvement in the quality ...

State's home health care ranked among the worst.

Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI);  March 21, 2006 ;     578 words ......state's home health care agencies...11 of 12 quality measures, according...specific quality measures. The quality measures for home health care, for example...regulates home health care agencies...improvement in the quality ...

Hillary Clinton Announces Agenda to Improve the Quality of Health Care for...

Targeted News Service;  August 23, 2007 ;     700+ words ......returns patients to the center of the health care system again by empowering and relying...physicians, nurses, other clinicians, and health care organizations - to improve that care continually. Background While health care in the U.S. has enormous strengths...dissatisfied with the ...

100 examples of health care innovations and tools.(nursing economic$: DATA...

Nursing Economics;  July 1, 2008 ;     203 words ......http://www.innovations.ahrq.gov. AHRQ's Health Care Innovations Exchange is the Federal government's repository for successful health care innovations. It also includes useful...that failed. The Web site is a tool for health care leaders, physicians, nurses, and other health ...

State is No. 1 in health care; Federal agency ranks Wisconsin at top,...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  June 12, 2007 ;     645 words ......the nation in health care quality based...based on 129 quality measures in four different...homes and home health care agencies perform...develop accepted quality measures, though, still...good measures of health care quality also ...

SEN. BAYH PROPOSAL TO IMPROVE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE CLEARS SENATE FINANCE...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 19, 2007 ;     409 words ......of children's health care in the United...develop and test quality measures for children's health care. It was included...public support for health care quality improvement...and testing of quality measures for children...best meet their ...

SENS. HATCH, BAYH, LINCOLN FIGHT TO IMPROVE CHILDREN'S HEALTH CARE

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 19, 2007 ;     628 words ......of children's health care in this country...develop and test quality measures for children's health care, was included...public support for health care quality improvement...and testing of quality measures for children...best meet their ...

NEW INVENTORY OF HHS QUALITY MEASURES RELEASED TO IMPROVE PUBLIC- AND...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  November 13, 2008 ;     409 words ......first-ever inventory of quality measures that are used for reporting...available on the National Quality Measures Clearinghouse, a Web site...collaboration within the quality measurement community and...important inventory of quality measures used by HHS agencies, ...

AHRQ Web Resource Features 100 Examples of Health Care Innovations and...

U.S. Newswire;  April 14, 2008 ;     636 words ......for learning and networking, the AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange offers a new home...Since 2007, AHRQ has reached out to the health care community and called for the submission of potential health care innovations. Only truly innovative initiatives are included in the AHRQ ...

GOV. PAWLENTY INTRODUCES HEALTH CARE INITIATIVE TO IMPROVE QUALITY, SAVE...

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  July 31, 2006 ;     700+ words ......to transform the health care system by paying...millions of dollars in health care costs. To implement...state purchased health care. "QCare will save...highest quality health care in Minnesota. We...153 million in health care costs will be ...

Report on health care disparities.(POLICY & PRACTICE)(Brief Article)

Internal Medicine News;  May 1, 2005 ;     144 words ......continue to plague the health care system, according to...of effectiveness for health care and 31 measures of access...received poorer quality of health care than whites for about two-thirds of the quality measures and had worse access...lower than whites on ...

SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MICHAEL O. LEAVITT DELIVERS REMARKS...

Political Transcript Wire;  April 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ......The value-based health care movement I reference...cornerstones are: quality measures, cost groupings...of value-driven health care. Let's take an...First, standard quality measures. I referenced...and implements quality measures. I want to ...

AHRQ launches new web-based quality measures resource. (Health Care...

Dermatology Nursing;  June 1, 2003 ;     293 words ......Web-based National Quality Measures Clearinghouse at http...current evidence-based quality measures and measure sets available...improve the quality of health care. The site is designed...may be interested in quality measures. Users can search...attributes of two ...

Nation's Children's Hospitals Endorse Senate Bill to Address Need for...

U.S. Newswire;  April 27, 2007 ;     687 words ......testing of quality measures for children's health care. Senators Evan...reporting on health care quality," added...of pediatric quality measures, consumers...to develop quality measures for health care, we cannot...

SECRETARY OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES MICHAEL O. LEAVITT CHAIRMAN...

Washington Transcript Service;  April 23, 2008 ;     700+ words ......The value-based health care movement I reference...cornerstones are: quality measures, cost groupings...of value-driven health care. Let's take an...First, standard quality measures. I referenced...and implements quality measures. I want to ...