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Greetings!
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New National Quality Forum Report for Hospice Released!
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The National Quality Forum
(NQF) has released the National Framework and Preferred
Practices for Palliative and Hospice Care.
This report describes quality domains and endorses
standards of care that will serve as the basis for the
definition of hospice quality measures for national
comparison and public reporting.
The OCS
PeerForum incorporates performance
measures, improvement processes and education to
help hospices take advantage of this important new
initiative.
For more information, you may download a one-page
summary of the project and the Executive
Summary of the full report. If you want to read the
full report, you may order it from NQF.
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Last Call! This Week's Informational Web Conferences
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Sign Up Today!
Connection
Wednesday, March 7, 2007
10am Pacific/1pm Eastern
Attend this informational web conference to learn how
Connection can
be your key to understanding, building and
maintaining a successful organization from the inside
out.
Connection
empowers providers with vital insights and metrics
that highlight the clinical, financial, and operational
health of their agency.
And there is no software to install or maintain!
Click here to enroll.
Exploring Patient Satisfaction - OCS-Customer Pulse
Thursday, March 8, 2007
10am Pacific/1pm Eastern
Attend this informational web conference to find out
how OCS does Patient Satisfaction!
Click here to enroll.
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OCS Summit, August 5-7, 2007
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Mark Your Calendar and Take Advantage of Early Bird Rates!
The OCS Summit
will once again be full of engaging and inspiring
content for Home Health and Hospice organizations.
Dynamic industry speakers include Terris King, the CMS
executive responsible for the implementation of Pay
for Performance across healthcare. He will describe
the evolving CMS vision and current efforts, and he
looks forward to an open discussion with Summit
participants.
In addition, expanded by popular demand, are
OCS Summit
sessions designed to help clients take the greatest
strategic advantage of their OCS reports and
tools.
But don't just take our word for what the OCS Summit has to offer. Read what a few clients had to say about last year's OCS Summit.
"[At the OCS Summit] I met OCS people who can help me with my problems that I thought were hopeless." OCS Client
"The breakout sessions helped, where together, we and OCS staff, looked at the data and drilled down for practical interpretation."
OCS
Client
"Loved the high level speakers, [they] were very informative and accessible!" OCS Client
To take advantage of the Early Bird Savings,
register
now for the OCS
Summit. Our early bird rates will expire on
April 30, 2007. For more information on the OCS Summit please visit
our OCS
Summit web page.
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QAPI - A Strategic Imperative
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A Hospice PeerForum Web Conference
Join us for a special teleconference, normally
reserved for Hospice
PeerForum
clients only*, focusing on
the proposed Quality
Assessment and Performance Improvement (QAPI)
CoP which presents hospices with a new
compliance challenge.
QAPI is a
comprehensive set of processes to enhance care
delivery, strategic planning, decision-making, and
operating management.
On this 1.5 hour teleconference we will discuss
QAPI as a strategy - and describe valuable frameworks, tools, and processes. Prepare now to comply with the
QAPI CoP, while
you drive organization-wide success through the
measurably high-quality patient care and operations.
For more information or to register, please email us at
info@ocsys.com or call us at 206.325.3396.
*If you are not a current Hospice PeerForum
client, you may attend this teleconference for $150.
The cost of the presentation will be credited back to
your account, should your hospice become a Hospice PeerForum client
in the future.
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Tips & Tricks! - What is the OCS-SOI?
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The OCS-Standardized
Outcome Index (OCS-SOI) is a single
number that reflects overall agency performance in
managing outcomes.
This proprietary calculation, developed by OCS for
summary outcomes analysis, has been adopted by
more than 1,300 organizations in our industry. Click
here for more
information.
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With the industry's most comprehensive data warehouse of integrated performance measures, OCS Clients consistently rank in the top one-third of all providers nationally.
To find out why, contact us at
info@ocsys.com
or log on to
our web site
at www.ocsys.com.
Until next week,
OCS, Inc.
Leading Healthcare Insight
Phone:
206.325.3396
Fax:
206.720.6018
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