National News Watch

U.S. ads push patients to shop for hospitals (USATODAY.com), May 20, 2008

Getting The Bugs Out - Hospitals Far Apart in Applying Infection-Control Measures (Washington Post Online), includes contribution from OFMQ's Dale Bratzler, DO, MPH

National Data Points to Improved Nursing Home Quality - improvements made possible by an unprecedented ongoing partnership and cooperation between QIOs and individual nursing homes in every state. (AHRQ and AHCA)

QIO Program "Good Value" for Medicare Dollars - American Health Quality Association on Health Care Financing Review Study, May 2007

Five Thousand Agencies Sign Up For Home Health Quality Improvement Campaign, May 22, 2007

 "EHR's, the Feds Get Something Right." Medical Economics Magazine Friday, March 16, 2007