Awards Given During IPRO’s 34th Annual Meeting
LAKE SUCCESS, N.Y., June 13, 2018 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Eleven New York health professionals, healthcare organizations, consumer advocates and community-based organizations have been recognized with IPRO’s 2018 Quality Awards. The awards were given at IPRO’s 34th Annual Meeting, June 5, 2018 at the Garden City Hotel, Garden City, New York. IPRO is a national not-for-profit organization that works to improve the quality of healthcare.
“Our 2018 Quality Awardees represent a diverse group, but they have a common goal: to help improve the health of New Yorkers and the healthcare they receive,” says IPRO Chief Medical Officer and Senior Vice President Clare B. Bradley, MD MPH. “We thank them for their efforts.”
Awards were given for accomplishments on a range of quality-related initiatives:
Honoree Location Recognized for ------- -------- -------------- Data Longjohn, MD Wyandanch, NY Implementing Systems to Skope Medical Care, P.C. Improve Patient Care ------------------------ -------------------- Louis A. Buzzeo, MD Sleepy Hollow, NY Continuous Quality Improvement, Patient & Family Engagement --- ---------- Acacia Network New York City and Buffalo, NY 10-Year Partnership with IPRO and Commitment to Everyone with Diabetes Counts Program --- ---------------------------- The Korean Community Manhattan, Queens and Educating Korean Medicare Services of Metropolitan Brooklyn, NY Beneficiaries Living with New York, Inc. Diabetes in Their Native Language in Partnership with IPRO --- ---- NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Brooklyn, NY Commitment to Educating Older Methodist Hospital Brooklynites About Diabetes Self-Management --- --------------- Gale Grunert Lowville, NY Reducing Hospital’s Lewis County General Hospital 30-Day Readmission Rate and Ongoing Collaboration with IPRO --- ----------------------- Patricia Bomba, MD, MACP Rochester, NY National Leadership in Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Transforming End-of-Life Care Planning and Long-Term Collaboration with IPRO --- ----------------------- Joe Caruso Utica, NY Passionate Commitment to Improving Public Sepsis Knowledge and Ensuring Voice of Consumer is Represented in IPRO’s Quality Improvement Work --- ---- Al Cardillo Albany, NY Ongoing Commitment to Home Care Association of Educating Home Health New York State Professionals and Public About Sepsis --- ------ Alex Spyropoulos, MD, FACP, Long Island and New York City Championing Widespread FCCP, FRCPC Dissemination of Anticoagulation Northwell Health Management Best Practices ---------------- ------------------------- Glens Falls Hospital Glens Falls, NY Commitment to Quality Improvement in Anticoagulation Management and Sharing of Evidence-Based Best Practices Through Health Informatics Innovation --- ----------
The meeting also featured keynote addresses by Dennis Wagner, MPA, who directs the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ (CMS’) Quality Improvement and Innovation Group, Kaiser Health News Editor-in-Chief Elisabeth Rosenthal, MD, and Marnie L. Doubek, MD, FAAFP, a family physician who became a national voice for sepsis awareness after her son, Zachary, developed this life-threatening condition.
To learn more about the work of the 2018 IPRO Quality Award winners, go to: https://ipro.org/about/ipro-quality-awards
About IPRO
IPRO is a national, not-for-profit healthcare organization that works with government agencies, providers and consumers to implement innovative programs that bring policy ideas to life. We do this by making creative use of clinical expertise, emerging technology, data solutions, and our diverse marketplace experience to make the healthcare system work better. Incorporated in 1983, IPRO is one of the nation’s largest and most experienced healthcare quality improvement organizations. IPRO works in partnership with our clients to achieve their goals of improved, equitable, and cost-effective healthcare.
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