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IMPORTANT NOTICE: Be advised that The Leapfrog Group has closed their 2006 survey as of February 28 and is currently reporting 2006 results on their website (leapfroggroup.org). The Leapfrog Group is currently conducting the Hospital Quality and Safety Survey 2007/8 Version 4.0 which can be accessed at https://leapfrog.medstat.com/. A security code has already been sent to the Chief Executive Officer at each Michigan hospital as of March 6 which will permit you to access and complete Leapfrog’s 2007 survey. Please do not update The Leapfrog Group survey using the Joint Hospital Survey link on this page, as your information will not be reported to Leapfrog
The Michigan Health and Safety Coalition 2006 Joint Hospital Survey will continue accepting updates to the MH&SC portion of the survey. You may access this survey using the links on this page and using the security code that was previously sent to the Chief Executive Officer of your hospital in August 2006.
2006 Michigan Health and Safety Coalition (MH&SC) Joint Hospital Survey
2006 SURVEY TIMELINES ANNOUNCED The launch date for the 2006 MH&SC Joint Hospital Survey is August 28, 2006. The survey will be open online from Monday, August 28 through September 29, 2006.
This year's survey marks the fifth survey year and the fourth year of the collaboration between the Michigan Health and Safety Coalition (MH&SC) and The Leapfrog Group (Leapfrog). MH&SC, a Michigan non-profit corporation, is a collaborative quality improvement group focused on improving patient safety in Michigan. Leapfrog is a national non-profit organization representing purchasers including many of Michigan’s largest and most influential employers. Completion of this survey satisfies the requirements of both organizations.
Participation in the survey is voluntary and hospitals have been supportive of the effort in the previous years. In 2005, 100 of 138 hospitals, or 72%, participated in the survey – so there is room for many more hospitals to participate. Remember: you can participate in the survey even if you do not perform one or more of the procedures or treatment areas contained in the survey.
All hospitals – urban and rural, large and small, are encouraged to participate in the survey. Due to the addition in 2004 of a section related to the “additional 27” National Quality Forum (NQF) Safe Practices, and the addition in 2005 of a section related to the use of Patient Safety Tools, the survey has become more relevant to ALL hospitals including small and/or rural hospitals.
If your hospital did not complete this survey in previous years we strongly encourage you to take another look at this year’s survey and complete only the sections that are relevant to your hospital.
Hospitals that complete a survey during this initial time period:
• demonstrate their commitment to improving patient safety to consumers and purchasers in Michigan;
• receive a CD containing aggregate data segmented by peer group and geographic region, in addition to their own hospital results;
• have their results published on a consumer report on the MH&SC Web site;
• have their results sent directly to health plans (HMOs) with which they have a contract;
• provide information – the survey data - that many health plans and/or purchasers are beginning to use as one piece of information when making hospital contracting decisions; and
• are eligible to participate in targeted MH&SC patient safety expert clinical collaboratives.
By sending the survey results to health plans, a hospital’s need to respond separately to individual health plan requests for this data is minimized.
Details about the survey content, schedule and security code needed to access the online survey will be communicated by letter to hospital CEOs on July 28 and by e-mail to hospital contacts on July 31.
A hardcopy of the 2006 MH&SC Joint Hospital Survey (PDF) will be available on this Web page on July 28, 2006. This will give hospitals an opportunity to begin to collect the data needed to respond to the survey a month before the survey opens online. The survey has not changed much, so a hospital’s hardcopy of last year’s answers might be a good reference to get started.
Hospitals are asked to complete the survey for the following areas of care:
- Open Heart Surgery
- Coronary Artery Bypass Surgery
- Percutaneous Coronary Intervention
- Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Repair
- Carotid Endarterectomy Surgery
- Pancreatic Resection
- Esophagectomy
- Low Birthweight Infants and Infants with Congenital Anomalies in Neonatal Intensive Care Units (NICUs)
- Intensive Care Unit Physician Staffing
- Patient Safety Tools (not scored)
- Computerized Physician Order Entry
- National Quality Forum Safe Practices (27 categories)
The Patient Safety Tools section, which includes Root Cause Analysis (RCA) and Healthcare Failure Mode and Effect Analysis (HFMEA) will once again NOT be scored nor will results be posted on the MH&SC consumer report. MH&SC will use results to help determine the need for collaborative improvement efforts in this area.
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