Eleven Individuals And Organizations Receive IPRO Quality Awards

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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