WHA Publishes 2020 Hospital Quality Report

Commitment to patient safety and health care quality unshaken by pandemic

From WHA The Valued Voice June 10, 2020

The Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) 2020 Quality Report underscores the high standard of care of the state’s hospitals even as they prepared for and responded to unprecedented challenges brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Included in WHA’s Quality Report are aggregate data for Wisconsin hospitals relative to quality programs and measures administered by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS). Through its Value-Based Purchasing Program, Hospital-Acquired Conditions Reduction Program and Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program, CMS aims to improve the care provided by the nation’s hospitals and link Medicare payments to health care quality in the inpatient setting. In all three programs, Wisconsin hospitals improve year over year and routinely outperform other health care providers.

WHA’s complete 2020 Quality Report is available here.