Prime Healthcare Services, Inc., a hospital management company in southern California, has taken measures to implement public inpatient and outpatient regulatory reporting requirements in nine of its hospitals.
Prime Healthcare has signed an agreement with the San Diego-based Premier healthcare alliance to employ Quality Measures Reporter, a single-source solution that allows hospitals to collect, submit and analyze data to measure clinical quality for compliance with national and state regulatory agencies, such as the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, The Joint Commission and pay-for-performance reimbursement initiatives.
Premier launched QMR back in November 2006 to ease the financial and technological burdens that hospitals face in capturing and publicly reporting clinical quality data.
Prime Healthcare will deploy QMR at all of its hospitals: Centinela Hospital Medical Center in Inglewood, Chino Valley Medical Center in Chino, Desert Valley Medical Center in Victorville, Huntington Beach Hospital in Huntington Beach, La Palma Intercommunity Hospital in La Palma, Montclair Hospital Medical Center in Montclair, Paradise Valley Hospital in National City, Sherman Oaks Hospital in Sherman Oaks and West Anaheim Medical Center in Anaheim.
"Prime Healthcare Services strives to achieve the highest quality of patient care standards at all of its affiliated hospitals," said Prem Reddy, MD, PHS' Chairman of the Board, "yet in a compassionate and cost-effective manner."
Quality Measures Reporter is designed to enable hospitals to track performance against national benchmarks and identify performance opportunities to increase clinical quality and efficiency, ensuring performance-based reimbursement and protecting market share.
The reporting tool is integrated into the Premier Performance Suite, which includes benchmarking, reporting analysis and real-time surveillance of clinical, safety, financial, operational, labor productivity and supply data.
"QMR enables hospitals to easily analyze the effect of quality measures on patient outcomes and cost," said Stephanie Alexander, senior vice president of Premier Healthcare Informatics. "For example, a hospital can see how patient outcomes, such as readmissions or length of stay, varied between patients that received all of the care they were eligible for versus those that did not."