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Hospital Quality Improvement
South Dakota Foundation for Medical Care contracts with the Centers for Medicaid & Medicare Services to perform Quality Improvement Organization (QIO) activities during three year cyles. These contract cycles are called QIO Statements of Work (SOW) and include several required tasks for Medicare. SDFMC is currently planning activities for the 8th Statement of Work.
To find out more about the quality improvement topics for the 8th SOW, click on the links below or to the left. The links below contain CMS resources on the objective of the study, samples of intervention tools, and detailed explanation of the quality measures. These links contain the latest information from CMS and the QIOSCs about the quality improvement projects. The links to the left will contain information specific to activities of SDFMC.
INPATIENT PROJECTS RESOURCES FROM CMS
Pneumonia
Surgical Care Improvement Project
Heart Failure
Acute Myocardial Infarction
Rural and Critical Hospital Improvement Project
Systems Improvement and Organizational Culture
SDFMC will also continue to provide technical assistance to hospitals participating in the various CMS and/or AHA hospital reporting initiatives. Information on CART and Hospital Reporting can be found here or by clicking on the link at the left.
New rules regarding the hospital issued notices of non-coverage and the Important Message From Medicare go into effect July 1, 2007. Copy of the final notices and fiscal intermediary manual instructions on this issue can be found on our Hospital Notices page.
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