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
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Data Longjohn, MD Wyandanch, NY Implementing Systems to
Skope Medical Care, P.C. Improve Patient Care
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Louis A. Buzzeo, MD Sleepy Hollow, NY Continuous Quality
Improvement, Patient & Family
Engagement
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Acacia Network New York City and Buffalo, NY 10-Year Partnership with IPRO
and Commitment to Everyone
with Diabetes Counts Program
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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
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NewYork-Presbyterian Brooklyn Brooklyn, NY Commitment to Educating Older
Methodist Hospital Brooklynites About Diabetes
Self-Management
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Gale Grunert Lowville, NY Reducing Hospital's
Lewis County General Hospital 30-Day Readmission Rate and Ongoing
Collaboration with IPRO
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Patricia Bomba, MD, MACP Rochester, NY National Leadership in
Excellus BlueCross BlueShield Transforming End-of-Life Care
Planning and Long-Term
Collaboration with IPRO
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Joe Caruso Utica, NY Passionate Commitment to
Improving Public Sepsis
Knowledge and Ensuring Voice
of Consumer is Represented in
IPRO's Quality Improvement
Work
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Al Cardillo Albany, NY Ongoing Commitment to
Home Care Association of Educating Home Health
New York State Professionals and Public About
Sepsis
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Alex Spyropoulos, MD, FACP, Long Island and New York City Championing Widespread
FCCP, FRCPC Dissemination of Anticoagulation
Northwell Health Management Best Practices
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Glens Falls Hospital Glens Falls, NY Commitment to Quality
Improvement in Anticoagulation
Management and Sharing of
Evidence-Based Best Practices
Through Health Informatics
Innovation
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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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