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Get the latest developments in the CMS Quality Initiative and news on QI/PI issues with this informative weekly newsletter.

September 5, 2008   (Volume 6, Issue 35)
 
Hospitals launch SWAT teams to fight infections
With less than a month to go before Medicare stops paying for hospital-acquired conditions, some hospitals are enlisting antibiotic SWAT teams to fight infections, according to the Wall Street Journal.
 
Georgia hospitals get low marks on Hospital Compare
The death rates at nine Georgia hospitals are worse than the national average for pneumonia and heart failure mortality, with a number higher than all states except California, according to the Atlanta Journal–Constitution.
 
California hospitals fined for preventable errors
California health officials last month slapped four hospitals with the maximum $25,000 fine for preventable errors that killed one patient, injured others, or created the potential for serious harm, according to the San Diego Union-Tribune.
 
CMS adds conditions to its no-pay list
Hailed by some as a big step forward for patient safety, CMS’ addition of new conditions to its no-pay list has others fretting and several asking: Are these conditions 100% preventable? The federal agency in July released its final inpatient prospective payment system rule and increased the number of conditions it will no longer pay for unless they were documented as present on admission.
 

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