Join OFMQ and our partners as we host a unique event that will help focus, coordinate, and enhance activities in Southeastern Oklahoma to integrate and improve patient care across the healthcare continuum, particularly at hospital discharge. No cost to attend! MD CME will be offered!

When: Wednesday April 11th, 2012

Where: Kiamichi Technology Center, Talihina, OK

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"The healthcare organizations that are leading the way to high quality care transitions are excellent listeners. They listen to the ideas of their cross setting colleagues and they listen to the needs of the patients they serve."

-Dr. Eric Coleman, Director, Care Transitions Program

Together, we can prevent 5,276 hospital readmissions and save $46m in healthcare spending in our state. Join OFMQ as we help communities measure the impact of hospital readmissions and build a plan for transformational change.

Frequent hospital readmissions are not just a hospital problem, they are a community problem. All providers and caregivers in a community have a role in achieving the high quality, coordinated and patient-centered care that prevents avoidable readmissions. Learn more about the hospital readmissions problem in Oklahoma.

Funded by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), this "all participate, all learn" Care Transitions Learning and Action Network (LAN) seeks to connect communities to help achieve the bold goal of reducing avoidable hospital readmissions by 20% by 2014.

For More Information:
Learn more about your benefits as a partner in this statewide initiative.
To sign up, click here.
Download a fact sheet about the national QIO Care Transitions initiative.
For more information about the QIO Program, click here.

Get Connected:
OFMQ invites all providers in Oklahoma to join a listserv to engage peer-to-peer communication about care transitions and healthcare-associated infections. To get started, send an email to ct-subscribe@list.ofmq.com and enter "subscribe" in the subject field.