The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council invites you to attend the upcoming “Hot Topic” educational meeting “Crisis Management: How to manage and mitigate your legal issues in the hospital.” Sponsored by Wilson Elser, LLP, the event is Dec. 13 from 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. in the Hay T. Clark Auditorium at Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for […]
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Thirty-day mortality rate for regional facilities
For several years now the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation (DFWHC Foundation) has been able to replicate the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ (CMS) 30-day, all-cause readmission measures for congestive heart failure, myocardial infarction (AMI) and pneumonia (PN). What has been missing is information on patients who have expired within the 30-day period without […]
Patient Safety Dashboard now available
Thanks to the knowledge gained from our work on the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) Hospital Engagement Network (HEN), we have developed a dashboard for all of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation’s participating facilities. This dashboard is displaying measures based on data already collected through the Claims Data Warehouse. Users can now […]
New tools to access and explore the data
Users of the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation (DFWHC Foundation) Business Intelligence (BI) Tools are starting to experience more than just access to regional data. They now receive the necessary graphs and charts to explore the data. In 2012, the DFWHC Foundation moved to a new BI Tool that allows users to visualize the data […]
What is the Swiss Cheese Model of Harm?
The 2012 Patient Safety Summit last month had an amazing slate of speakers that were inspiring! Dr. Bob Wachter’s presentations provided keen insights into historical perspectives of patient safety and contributing factors of medical mistakes. One example was that physicians today manage on average 150 medications where as the iconic “Marcus Welby, M.D.” would have […]
Foundation and March of Dimes to host Nov. 29 event
Working in collaboration with the March of Dimes, the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation (DFWHC Foundation) will host an educational session Thursday, November 29 entitled “Prematurity Prevention Grand Rounds” at the University of Texas at Dallas Jindal School of Business. Speakers will include Dr. Eugene Toy and Maternity Nursing Director Paula Efird of the Methodist […]
Research on 2011 Readmissions available
In a readmissions report created by the Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation (DFWHC Foundation) in August, claims data in 2011 for hospitalizations of patients 18 years and older from 77 acute care facilities was analyzed with surprising results. Readmission rates, characteristics, patient age, gender, ethnicity, discharge status, payer and diagnoses were included in the study. […]
Foundation releases 2011-2012 Annual Review
The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation (DFWHC Foundation) distributed its 2010-2011 Annual Review in July. The report details the activities of the different departments over the past year. “Our work has focused on finding new opportunities to match the organization’s goals,” said Kristin Jenkins, president of the DFWHC Foundation. “The DFWHC Foundation team has adopted […]
How is the DFWHC Foundation Utilizing Present on Admission? (Part 3 of 3)
The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation’s focus for collecting Present-on-Admission (POA) data is not only for hospital comparisons (though valuable in identifying best practices), but also on how we can use the knowledge of that existing condition to potentially identify preventable complications. Our goal is to assist hospital partners in delivering quality patient care and […]
First Quarter 2012 successful using new data correction tool!
The Dallas-Fort Worth Hospital Council Foundation’s Information and Quality Services Center (IQSC) successfully completed first quarter 2012 state reporting data submissions with very few issues. Hospital end users utilized the new QEdit data correction tool to submit data to the IQSC. The new web-based tool allows users to submit larger volumes of data with shorter […]