Baptist Participates in Medicare National Initiative to Improve Quality Care

Jackson, Miss - June 4, 2003 - Baptist Medical Center is working with Information & Quality Healthcare, the Medicare Quality Improvement Organization for Mississippi, on a national initiative to improve quality of care for the Medicare population in the clinical areas of acute myocardial infarction, heart failure, pneumonia and surgical infection prevention.

During the next two years, Baptist will be involved in a collaborative with other hospitals working on the projects. Hospitals in the collaborative will share intervention and practices that are successful and considered "best practices."

The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a federal agency of the US Department of Health and Human Services, work through Information & Quality Healthcare to provide hospitals with information and tools to improve health care in the selected clinical areas for the Medicare population.

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