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General Issues

• Transparency: Living in Glass Hospitals - Voices of Experience Three-Part Series
• Upcoming Quality Improvement Educational Events (4/29/08)
• Illinois Annual Quality Leadership Conference: Excelling and Accelerating Quality Care and Outcomes - May 15-16, 2008
• The Lincoln Foundation for Performance Excellence presents " Balanced Scorecard for Excellence," May 21, Tellabs, Inc., Naperville - Click here for information and to register.
• Upcoming Educational Opportunities: Focus on Quality Improvement and Public Accountability (3/28/08)
• Upcoming Releases: "Unnatural Causes" PBS Series and Dartmouth Study on Chronic and End of Life Care (3/25/08)
• Quality Improvement Educational Events (2/13/08)
• CMS Releases List of Hospitals Targeted for SCIP Improvement (2/5/08)
• Public Reporting and Accountability Updates (11/15/07)
• Celebrating National Healthcare Quality Week (10/25/07)
• Infection Prevention and Control Laws Enacted (8/29/07)
• Medicare Focus on Quality - Inpatient PPS Final Rules and Proposed Outpatient PPS Rules
• New Illinois Hospital Association 5 Million Lives Campaign ACTION Initiative (8/24/07)
• Quality Development Updates (8/9/07)
  - Medicare Quality Developments: Federal Fiscal Years 2008 & Beyond
• Medicare Quality Updates: Inpatient Final Rules and Outpatient Proposed Rules (8/2/07)
• Public Accountability and Performance Assessment Abounds: National, State, and Hospital Releases (6/13/07)
• CMS HLCAT Dialogue and Focus Group Discussions (4/26/07)
• Integration of Quality and Health Information Technology Update (4/26/07)
• Developments on Quality Improvement Initiatives and Public Accountability (3/22/07)
• Preparing for Pay for Performance - FY2008 and Beyond (10/18/06)

Special Studies

• Release of Dartmouth Study and Upcoming HealthGrades Report (4/7/08)
  - 2008 Dartmouth Executive Summary (4/7/08)
  - The Dartmouth Institute Press Release
• Joint Commission Study and Press Release (11/12/07) - Updated 11/14/07
• MRSA Prevalence Study
• Dartmouth Study
• Upcoming Release of Dartmouth Atlas Results (5/10/06)
• Hospital Report Card Act Rules and Dartmouth Study (4/5/06)

Recently Released Documents

• CDC Guidelines for Isolation Precautions
• Medicare - State Operations Manual: Survey Protocol, Regulations and Interpretive Guidelines for Hospitals (5/21/04)