Administrative Memos

200325

FROM: Theodore O. Will, Chief Executive Officer
DATE: Dec 09, 2003
SUBJECT: Hospital-Generated Data Survey - Quarterly Update
IPRO CONTACTS:

Marguerite Shaffer, R.N., C.P.H.Q., Senior Director, extension 634
Charles Stimler, M.D., M.P.H., Medical Officer, extension 634

As you know, during the 7th Scope of Work, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) expects to transition to hospital performance of data abstraction for quality indicator measurements. As part of that effort, CMS has created a survey to help Quality Improvement Organizations (QIOs) coordinate their efforts at assisting hospitals in this task. CMS has asked that this survey be updated quarterly, and this is the sixth round of such surveys conducted by IPRO. The answers to this survey should reflect activities at your hospital from October through December 2003.

If you have previously completed the survey, your answers are already noted in the attached survey form. Please take the following applicable action:

If there are no updates to the survey information, no further action is necessary
If there are changes to the survey information, please put one line through the incorrect information, enter the correct information, and return the survey to IPRO

If you have not previously completed the survey, a blank survey form is attached. Please enter the information and return the survey to IPRO.

Corrected or completed surveys should be returned to IPRO, either by mail or fax (516-326-0434), attention Marguerite Shaffer, no later than December 29, 2003.

Should you have any questions regarding this memorandum or the survey itself, please feel free to contact Marguerite Shaffer at extension 634.