Not sure if anybody else's facility has started stressing this (I'm sure mine isn't the only one...) but I wanted to see what nurses thought about this change, basically that the HCAHPS scores will determine how much Medicare will pay the hospital.
" Scoring in the Hospital Value Based Purchasing Program will be based on whether a hospital meets or exceeds the performance standards established with respect to the measures. By adopting this program, we will reward hospitals based on actual quality performance on measures, rather than simply reporting data for those measures."
All the articles I find on this are pretty dense... here's the most basic I can find..
http://www.hhs.gov/news/press/2011pres/04/20110429a.html
How do you think this will effect us?