WHEN: Monday, September 29, 2009
10 a.m. Eastern
WHAT: The first national quality project designed to measure, improve, and publicly report data on key aspects of psychiatric hospitalization is set to begin data collection on October 1, 2008. The Hospital-Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services Core Measure Set (HBIPS), which will allow psychiatric hospitals to meet Joint Commission performance measurement requirements, is being launched by a historic public-private partnership as a critical step in meeting the goal of providing the best psychiatric care possible for Americans with mental and addictive disorders. The measures focus on issues that affect the course of an individual's psychiatric hospitalization - from the moment they enter the facility through discharge.
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Learn how these evidence-based, consensus-driven measures will create a national, publicly reported database that will allow comparisons across organizations.
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PARTNERS: The HBIPS measures evolved from a groundbreaking public-private partnership committed to advancing quality patient care involving the National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems (NAPHS), the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors (NASMHPD), the NASMHPD Research Institute, Inc. (NRI), and The Joint Commission (TJC), in collaboration with the American Psychiatric Association (APA).
LIVE DIAL IN: DIAL TOLL-FREE: 866/362-4820
GIVE PASSCODE: 779 365 86
NOTE: The call will be recorded and available following the briefing at www.naphs.org.
EXPERTS:
Frank Ghinassi, Ph.D., chair, HBIPS Technical Advisory Panel; chair, National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems (NAPHS) Performance Measurement Committee; vice president, Quality and Performance Improvement, Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic/University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; assistant professor in psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical School
Richard C. Hermann, MD, MS, associate professor of medicine and psychiatry, Tufts University School of Medicine; director, Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Mental Health, Tufts-NEMC Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies
Celeste Milton, MPH, BSN, RN, associate project director, Center for Performance Measurement, The Joint Commission
SOURCE National Association of Psychiatric Health Systems
