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

[Vigilante]

Fugley is on the left... just to point her out!

 

[rdean]

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

That's it? No data? No studies? Just this picture?

Just so we all understand it's not just black kids:

 

[rdean]

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

Wow, they've really fallen a long way down. I suspect current Republicans see the first three as just plain awful and an embarrassment to the GOP.

 

[rdean]

Fugley is on the left... just to point her out!

Guv apos s former spokeswoman censures Utah apos s Mike Lee over Obamacare The Salt Lake Tribune

Scott Brown Confounded By Republican Who Benefitted From Obamacare

These kinds of stories from Republicans must kill your kind. How does your kind deal with this truth?

 

[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

That's it? No data? No studies? Just this picture?

Just so we all understand it's not just black kids:

Well has HHS lied before?

 

[Vigilante]

Fugley is on the left... just to point her out!

Guv apos s former spokeswoman censures Utah apos s Mike Lee over Obamacare The Salt Lake Tribune

Scott Brown Confounded By Republican Who Benefitted From Obamacare

These kinds of stories from Republicans must kill your kind. How does your kind deal with this truth?

When we see it, we'll know it, you haven't shown shit yet!

 

[CrusaderFrank]

ObamaCare is just too awesome to take all at once, that why Obama keeps delaying its full implementation. It would save millions of people and trillions of dollars -- and that's just in the first 2 months, according to government models

 

[CrusaderFrank]

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.

Yeah, I think Starkey said that

 

[MeBelle]

Just for fun....I'll repeat for the class...

CMS imposed RRP didn't begin until FY 2014

Now, please tell me which part of the above statement neither of you can understand?

ps, give y'all a hint...the actual answer GB has already quoted!!!

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.

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?

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.

 

[Greenbeard]

Just for fun....I'll repeat for the class...

CMS imposed RRP didn't begin until FY 2014.

Hospital safety improvements fall under the Partnership for Patients (and the Hospital Engagement Networks it fostered). Which started in 2011.

 

[rdean]

Fugley is on the left... just to point her out!

Guv apos s former spokeswoman censures Utah apos s Mike Lee over Obamacare The Salt Lake Tribune

Scott Brown Confounded By Republican Who Benefitted From Obamacare

These kinds of stories from Republicans must kill your kind. How does your kind deal with this truth?

When we see it, we'll know it, you haven't shown shit yet!

Read the links dipshit. What the hell is wrong with you?

 

[Idadunno]

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.

I can't figure out if you are being sarcastic or not. I think you are... since no one actually dies from bedsores, falling, and the ODs and wrongful meds... really??? Increasing Medicaid numbers and insurance policies does not increase knowledge and practice. That quote came from the Obama Administration, not the person you are quoting.
" The Obama administration today said 50,000 fewer patients died in hospitals and $12 billion in “health care costs were saved” due in part to initiatives woven into the Affordable Care Act that helped reduce hospital-acquired infections from 2010 to 2013." This article pertains to Medicaid issues. If I posted this in class, my professors would say, "What are you comparing this to? Where is the proof that the ACA had this effect and not the fact that 50,000 fewer people died period? Comparing stats throughout years, what is the average of mortality rates?" This claim cannot be proved. We actually did logic problems like that in Finite Math.
The ACA is a real mess. People are having to re-enroll because the policies they were given are no longer any good. Over 7 million have been pushed into Medicaid, and since Medicaid does not insure unemployed people unless they have a fatal disease or disability, they are giving out junk policies or family planning policies. The tax payers really are paying for the medical bills of the poor now.
Now, to your claim that Republicans hate it... not so! The ACA is not the first attempt to push for government controlled health insurance. The Republicans tried to push a similar bill ages ago but were shut out by the Democrats. This has been back and forth since... Nixon, I believe. The research is out there---Google and learn young squire!

 

[dblack]

Yay! Penalties!

 

[Listening]

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.

It's like the bullshit Harvard study (you know, the one where 47,000 people a year die prematurely from lack of health insurance).

When asked to produce the bodies, the left is as empty as RDean's head.