ACA's Hospital Penalties Help Save 50,000 Lives, $12 Billion

[rdean]

Safer US hospitals save billions Bankrate Inc.

HHS credits a mix of federal and private initiatives, aided by funding from President Barack Obama's signature health reform law, with saving the lives of roughly 50,000 hospital patients admitted between 2011 and 2013.

Among the highlights:

• 20,300 lives saved due to a decline in bedsores.
• 11,500 lives saved by reducing such adverse drug events as overdoses and administering the wrong medications.
• 6,400 lives saved by reducing inpatient falls.

Rich Umbdenstock, CEO of the American Hospital Association, singled out the Obamacare administrators at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for praise, in giving hospitals a financial incentive to improve care.

ACA s Hospital Penalties Help Save 50 000 Lives 12 Billion - Forbes

Now we can understand why Republicans hate it to much. Come on people, if every singe one of your polices for the last 30 or 40 years was either an utter failure or a terrible disaster, you'd be pissed too. The GOP hates being shown how it's done. People who are anti education don't like "learnin'" no matter where it comes from.

 

[martybegan]

So a branch of the federal government filled with people who help write and implement Obamacare, hired by the person it is named after say something awesome about said program?

In other news North Korea maintains it is Best Korea.

 

[rdean]

So a branch of the federal government filled with people who help write and implement Obamacare, hired by the person it is named after say something awesome about said program?

In other news North Korea maintains it is Best Korea.

Because unlike Republicans, people who work for a living in our government have no integrity. "Let them die".

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

Isn't there an Obamacare forum?

 

[Procrustes Stretched]

So a branch of the federal government filled with people who help write and implement Obamacare, hired by the person it is named after say something awesome about said program?

In other news North Korea maintains it is Best Korea.

Yeah, the legislative branch of government writes a law and the executive branch signs it into law.

Oh, forgot about the part where the third branch of government ruled said law constitutional.

fancy all of that

 

[rdean]

My favorite stories are from Republicans who say Obamacare saved either their lives of the life
of a loved one or kept them from bankruptcy.

 

[Katzndogz]

ObamaCare Shuttering Hospitals and Free Clinics

Across the nation, ObamaCare is causing hospitals to close or to downsize, free clinics to shut down, and healthcare — when it can be obtained at all — to be delivered slowly or even rationed.
These were all predictable results of making government the dominant provider of health insurance, which the Affordable Care Act (ACA) does by subsidizing private insurance and vastly expanding Medicaid eligibility.
The expansion of Medicaid — the primary means of widening coverage under the ACA — is the main cause of these woes. The federal government simply doesn’t reimburse providers enough to make treating Medicaid patients worthwhile. Medicare, too, underpays providers, and its rolls are growing by the day as the Baby Boomers reach age 65.
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[martybegan]

So a branch of the federal government filled with people who help write and implement Obamacare, hired by the person it is named after say something awesome about said program?

In other news North Korea maintains it is Best Korea.

Because unlike Republicans, people who work for a living in our government have no integrity. "Let them die".

Nice job of not answering the question.

 

[Katzndogz]

My favorite stories are from Republicans who say Obamacare saved either their lives of the life
of a loved one or kept them from bankruptcy.

Would that include the Congresswoman telling Gruber how obamacare killed her husband?

 

[rdean]

So a branch of the federal government filled with people who help write and implement Obamacare, hired by the person it is named after say something awesome about said program?

In other news North Korea maintains it is Best Korea.

Because unlike Republicans, people who work for a living in our government have no integrity. "Let them die".

Nice job of not answering the question.

There really isn't a question there. It's some kind of imagined and unfounded accusation. Even you know that.

 

[MeBelle]

Timelines are off in this article rdean

CMS imposed RRP didn't begin until FY 2014.

Safer US hospitals save billions Bankrate Inc.

HHS credits a mix of federal and private initiatives, aided by funding from President Barack Obama's signature health reform law, with saving the lives of roughly 50,000 hospital patients admitted between 2011 and 2013.

Among the highlights:

• 20,300 lives saved due to a decline in bedsores.
• 11,500 lives saved by reducing such adverse drug events as overdoses and administering the wrong medications.
• 6,400 lives saved by reducing inpatient falls.

Rich Umbdenstock, CEO of the American Hospital Association, singled out the Obamacare administrators at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) for praise, in giving hospitals a financial incentive to improve care.

ACA s Hospital Penalties Help Save 50 000 Lives 12 Billion - Forbes

Now we can understand why Republicans hate it to much. Come on people, if every singe one of your polices for the last 30 or 40 years was either an utter failure or a terrible disaster, you'd be pissed too. The GOP hates being shown how it's done. People who are anti education don't like "learnin'" no matter where it comes from.

 

[Greenbeard]

Timelines are off in this article rdean

CMS imposed RRP didn't begin until FY 2014.

The Partnership for Patients launched in the spring of 2011.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 12, 2011

Partnership for patients to improve care and lower costs for Americans
New partnership between Administration, the private sector, hospitals and doctors to
make care safer, potentially save up to $50 billion

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, joined by leaders of major hospitals, employers, health plans, physicians, nurses, and patient advocates, today announced the Partnership for Patients, a new national partnership that will help save 60,000 lives by stopping millions of preventable injuries and complications in patient care over the next three years.

Contracts for Hospital Engagement Networks were out by the end of that year.

In December 2011, the federal government's Partnership for Patients initiative issued $218 million in grants to create 26 Hospital Engagement Networks with some ambitious goals; reduce patient harm by 40 percent and readmissions by 20 percent over two years. The Health Research & Educational Trust, working with nearly 1,500 hospitals and 31 state hospital associations, operated the largest HEN.

They've seen results:

•Hospital Engagement Networks were created in 2011 with three-year goals of reducing patient harm by 40 percent and readmissions by 20 percent.

• The AHA/HRET HEN is the largest of the 26 and includes 1,500 hospitals and 31 state hospital associations.

• The AHA/HRET HEN hospitals improved quality in 10 core areas by last December, resulting in better care for 69,072 patients with associated cost savings of $201.8 million.

That's just one HEN, the recent report out of HHS aggregates the progress seen across the thousands of hospitals participating in all 26 of them.

According to the Leapfrog Group, the launch of those HENs is right around the time hospitals across the country started to change the way they deliver care to reduce harm and provide safer care--an area in which they had previously lagged for many years. What coincidental timing!

The data reveals that nearly one-third of all hospitals have seen a 10-percent or higher improvement in performance since 2012. The majority of those “wins” are the result of hospitals improving their processes and safe practices – such as hand hygiene, improved staffing levels and training for nurses, and administering the correct antibiotics prior to surgery.

“The data tells us that more hospitals are working harder to create a safe environment, and that’s good news for patients,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of Leapfrog, which administers the Hospital Safety Score. “Since a ream of disappointing studies suggested that through 2010 progress in patient safety was virtually zero, the fact that we are seeing results now is notable. It’s a reflection of the ability to galvanize change in healthcare transparency via the Hospital Safety Score and other efforts.”

The timeline works out pretty well, actually.

 

[MeBelle]

How can you see results of something that hasn't been in the works for a year?

CMS imposed RRP didn't begin until FY 2014

Word salad responses don't impress the knowldegable by trade.

Don't make me pull your meme!

Timelines are off in this article rdean

CMS imposed RRP didn't begin until FY 2014.

The Partnership for Patients launched in the spring of 2011.

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 12, 2011

Partnership for patients to improve care and lower costs for Americans
New partnership between Administration, the private sector, hospitals and doctors to
make care safer, potentially save up to $50 billion

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, joined by leaders of major hospitals, employers, health plans, physicians, nurses, and patient advocates, today announced the Partnership for Patients, a new national partnership that will help save 60,000 lives by stopping millions of preventable injuries and complications in patient care over the next three years.

Contracts for Hospital Engagement Networks were out by the end of that year.

In December 2011, the federal government's Partnership for Patients initiative issued $218 million in grants to create 26 Hospital Engagement Networks with some ambitious goals; reduce patient harm by 40 percent and readmissions by 20 percent over two years. The Health Research & Educational Trust, working with nearly 1,500 hospitals and 31 state hospital associations, operated the largest HEN.

They've seen results:

•Hospital Engagement Networks were created in 2011 with three-year goals of reducing patient harm by 40 percent and readmissions by 20 percent.

• The AHA/HRET HEN is the largest of the 26 and includes 1,500 hospitals and 31 state hospital associations.

• The AHA/HRET HEN hospitals improved quality in 10 core areas by last December, resulting in better care for 69,072 patients with associated cost savings of $201.8 million.

That's just one HEN, the recent report out of HHS aggregates the progress seen across the thousands of hospitals participating in all 26 of them.

According to the Leapfrog Group, the launch of those HENs is right around the time hospitals across the country started to change the way they deliver care to reduce harm and provide safer care--an area in which they had previously lagged for many years. What coincidental timing!

The data reveals that nearly one-third of all hospitals have seen a 10-percent or higher improvement in performance since 2012. The majority of those “wins” are the result of hospitals improving their processes and safe practices – such as hand hygiene, improved staffing levels and training for nurses, and administering the correct antibiotics prior to surgery.

“The data tells us that more hospitals are working harder to create a safe environment, and that’s good news for patients,” said Leah Binder, president and CEO of Leapfrog, which administers the Hospital Safety Score. “Since a ream of disappointing studies suggested that through 2010 progress in patient safety was virtually zero, the fact that we are seeing results now is notable. It’s a reflection of the ability to galvanize change in healthcare transparency via the Hospital Safety Score and other efforts.”

The timeline works out pretty well, actually.

 

[Greenbeard]

How can you see results of something that hasn't been in the works for a year?

2011 was three years ago. Any other brainbusters?

 

[Luddly Neddite]

How can you see results of something that hasn't been in the works for a year?

2011 was three years ago. Any other brainbusters?

Thanks. You beat me to it.

 

[ScienceRocks]

If it is saving us money and forcing people to show responsibility. Isn't that a conservative value?

 

[Greenbeard]

If it is saving us money and forcing people to show responsibility. Isn't that a conservative value?

Not anymore, it seems. Disappointing.

 

[Luddly Neddite]

My favorite stories are from Republicans who say Obamacare saved either their lives of the life
of a loved one or kept them from bankruptcy.

Easy to find really great success stories.

Much harder to find is an example of a Republican doing anything at all.

 

[Vigilante]

An HHS report,,, have they ever lied to us before?

http://blogs.record-eagle.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/baggypants_0330_1_480x360.jpg

 

[Luddly Neddite]

If it is saving us money and forcing people to show responsibility. Isn't that a conservative value?