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Quality and Patient Safety

AF4Q - Aligning Forces for Quality

6/26/09: News Release: Federal Agency Ranks Wisconsin #1 in Health Care Quality
5/29/09: State Bases First Hospital Pay-for-Reporting Payment on CheckPoint Measures
5/29/09: Stroke Survey Results Shared With WHA Medical & Professional Affairs Council
5/15/09: Legislature Approves Statewide Smoking Ban
5/15/09: WHA Seeking Participants for Aligning Forces for Quality "Sounding Board"
5/1/09: Wisconsin Rural Hospitals Make Strides in Stroke Care
4/24/09: DQA Memo Addresses Medication Cart Storage
3/20/09: WHA Set to Participate in National Project to Reduce Hospital Infections
3/6/09: Hospitals Encouraged to Review 'Dry Run' Reports on AHRQ Quality Measures
3/6/09: Wisconsin Hospitals Standardize Patient Color-Coded Alerts

2/27/09: Nearly 80% of Wisconsin Hospitals Implement Color Standards

2/27/09: Wisconsin Hospitals Encouraged to Participate in Surgical Safety Checklist "Challenge"

12/31/08: More than 40 Wisconsin Hospitals Implement Color Standards

12/31/08: Safe Place for Newborns Continues to Save Lives

12/12/08: Sign Up Now for Rural Hospital Stroke Improvement Project II (2008-2009)

12/5/08: Kindig Shares Wisconsin Health Report Card Results with Wisconsin Quality Steering Committee

News Release: Wisconsin Hospitals Invest in Health Information Technology (8/20/08)

Report: Wisconsin Hospitals Connect to Health Information Technology (8/08)

6/27/08: Quality and Safety Improvement Projects Due July 15 for Inclusion at 2008 Forum

6/27/08: HHS Secretary Announces Selection of Wisconsin Medical Society, MetaStar and WCHQ as One of 12 Sites for Major EHR Demonstration

6/27/08: Wisconsin Hospitals Standardize Patient Color-Coded Alerts

WHA Board Approves Adding New Perinatal Measures to CheckPoint (6/13/08)

National Magazine Dubs Wisconsin "Health Care USA" (11/9/07)

WHA Presents Quality Reporting Initiatives at WREN Forum (11/2/07)

Wisconsin is on Top in National Health Care Ranking Reports (6/15/07)

News Release: Wisconsin Ranks in Top Ten on State Health System Scorecard (6/13/07)

News Release: Federal Agency Ranks Wisconsin #1 in Health Care Quality (6/12/07)

Hospitals and Health Networks: WISCONSIN Ahead of the Pack
Weekly Influenza Update

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7/4/2009
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