 Dean Health System
Dean Health Plan (DHP) continues to be committed to providing our members and providers
with information about the care and service provided by our network hospitals. As
part of this valued commitment, DHP has implemented a pay-for-performance program
that rewards hospitals for participating in public reporting activities, such as
the Wisconsin Hospital Association’s Checkpoint and The Leapfrog Group’s patient
safety survey. DHP is currently monitoring hospital’s participation in reporting
on WHA’s clinical and safety metrics and is looking toward future rewards that will
differentiate hospitals based on their performance on these measures.
Employee Trust
Fund
Wisconsin health care providers are demonstrating their willingness
to share information with the public about the steps they are taking to improve
the quality and safety of care for their patients. Medical errors result in over
98,000 preventable deaths each year, yet there is little information with which
to compare and choose health care providers based on safety and quality. This information
is a starting point to help us begin to assess healthcare options and to ask more
informed questions about what doctors and hospitals are doing to reduce medical
errors and improve quality.
CheckPoint is a statewide program sponsored by the Wisconsin Hospital Association
that reports results from Wisconsin hospitals who have agreed to share information
about the quality and safety of health care services delivered to patients in their
communities. CheckPoint provides data on error prevention measures and clinical interventions that
medical experts agree should be taken to treat conditions such as heart attacks,
heart failure, pneumonia--three of the most common causes of hospitalization. Additional
quality measures, as well as consumer-focused educational information, will be added
to the CheckPoint program over time.
One Check Mark is awarded to a hospital that has provided data for the error prevention
measures and two of the three clinical measures. A second Check Mark is awarded
to a hospital providing data on the new error prevention measure-Medication Reconciliation.
This measure indicates a hospital's progress toward identifying the most complete
and accurate list of medications a patient is taking when admitted to the hospital
and using that list to provide correct medication for patient anywhere within the
health care system.
ETF rewards plans that have been successful in meeting patient safety and quality
goals set by such organizations as Leapfrog and the Wisconsin Hospital Association’s
Checkpoint initiative. According to ETF Secretary Eric Stanchfield, “We are holding the insurance plans and their providers accountable
for their compliance with these efforts and performance to date; it’s a factor during
premium negotiations. Quality
is beginning to trump cost.”
Security Insurance
Security Health Plan takes safety
in hospitals very seriously. We monitor this through data from CheckPoint. Security
Health Plan monitors five measures in the area of patient safety and medical errors
at affiliated hospitals. All of Security Health Plan's affiliated hospitals have
chosen to participate in CheckPoint. No less than annually, Security Health Plan's
Quality Improvement Committee, an all physician committee, reviews CheckPoint's
Error Prevention information on all affiliated hospitals.
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