Patient Safety Structural Measure Education

The Patient Safety Structural Measures (PSSMS) are part of the Inpatient Prospective Payment System, which pays hospitals to report on the quality of care provided. Hospitals that do not meet the measures could receive a reduction in their annual percentage payment increase. Risk, Patient Safety, and Quality will need to work seamlessly to authentically meet the intent of the PSSMS.

Boil down the salient points of the Patient Safety Structural Measures domains and attestations for Risk Professionals to identify how their organization can meet the measure domains and attestations. Review the Patient Safety Structural Measures domains and attestations. Identify potential opportunities and roadblocks for organizations to meet the new measurements while gaining tools to overcome them. Utilize the Patient Safety Structural Measures to demonstrate the value of the Risk Professional to senior leadership. In addition, this can be used as an opportunity to increase the bridging between patient safety, quality, and risk.

Learning Objectives:

1. The learner will be able to identify the Patient Safety Structural Measures Domains and attestations.
2. The learner will be able to identify potential roadblocks to meeting the Patient Safety Structural Measures Domains and attestations at their organization.  And gain tools to overcome the roadblocks.
3. The learner will be able to identify how to utilize the Patient Safety Structural Measures Domains and attestations to demonstrate the Risk Professional's value to senior leadership.

Speaker Bio

Kathryn Biasotti, BSN, CPHRM, LNCC, has over three decades of nursing experience in health care operations and administration.

Currently, she owns and operates a consulting business, working with health care clients on a myriad of health care topics She has held leadership roles in risk management, patient safety, medical staff affairs, corporate compliance, employment practices, and quality improvement.  More recently, providing Interim Risk, Patient Safety, and Quality Leadership positions in two of America’s leading health care consortiums. She is a speaker at both regional and national levels. She volunteers for numerous health care organizations and serves on her local community health systems governing board. In addition, Ms. Biasotti excels as a hospital and nursing standard of care expert witness.  She is passionate about moving forward patient and employee safety as a national key initiative and has recently become a Patient For Patient Safety US champion to support moving forward patient and employee safety as a national key initiative.

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