If your CEO called you and asked "currently how much CMS was reimbursing the hospital for decubitus ulcers" (not present at admission), what would your answer be?
What if the CEO continued and asked the same question about the other Never Events?
Do we really know how much never events are costing? Is there a way to discover how to prevent never events and in the process, remain profitable?
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PATIENT SAFETY- The PROACT Root Cause Analysis Approach.
By: Robert J. Latino, CEO, Reliability Center, Inc
This book provides a perspective on patient care outside the healthcare industry and culture. Challenging perceptions about Root Cause Analysis (RCA), it provides a new approach that includes tools such as Basic Failure Modes and Effects Analysis (FMEA) and Opportunity Analysis (OA) which help quantify and prioritize events which deserve the attention of true RCA. Defines the events that require RCA to maximize the effect on the patient. They address not only the proactive methodologies but also the organizational paradigms that must change in order to support and sustain such activities in the interest of patient safety. The book also addresses how to quantify losses from Never Events and then outlines how to prevent their recurrence.
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Article and Survey Results:
Article:
CMS What are the Root Causes of Medicare -
Changing the Face of Root Cause analysis (RCA).
"The Trigger, The Consequence, The Response & The Reality"
By: Robert J. Latino, CEO, Reliability Center, Inc.
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Survey Results:
National Decubitus Foundation
Survey and Article:
Cost Savings Through Bedsore Avoidance.
Summary * Incidences * Strategies * Consclusion
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CMS and states may stop paying for specific hospital-acquired conditions. Will health plans follow suit?
"We have very specific requests," says Delbanco. They include having the hospital:
apologize to the patient and family affected by the never event,
report the event to at least one reporting program,
conduct a root-cause analysis, and
waive all costs directly related to the never event and refrain from seeking payment from the patient or a third-party payer.
"There are no reporting requirements at this time for hospital-acquired conditions, including infections,**" says Griffith-Cohen. "A purpose of the proposed rule is to attempt to address that. The initiative was mandated by Congress in order to prevent Medicare from bearing the cost when a patient incurs a hospital-acquired condition that could have been prevented with proper care and evidence-based guidelines."
By Using PROACT Software You Can:
Understand how proactive activities such as
RCA, FMEA and OA integrate into existing systems.
Differentiate between the values of chronic
vs acute events, and problems vs opportunities.
Contrast FMEA’s vs Opportunity Analyses to learn how
to mine hospital systems for opportunities.
Correlate proactive analyses to actual patient
safety.
Understand the importance of collecting the
5P’s of data collection.
Organize the appropriate team members to increase
chances of an unbiased analysis.
Use a logic tree to uncover the Physical, Human
and Latent root causes associated with any undesirable outcome.
Ensure that evidence is used to support all
hypotheses.
Understand the Top 10 Traps resulting in human
error.
Learn why mix-ups occur.
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Let RCI show you over 20% of events that are costing 80% of losses!
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