Hospitals
Hospitals serve a vital role in the healthcare system by providing inpatient diagnostic and therapeutic services for a variety of medical conditions, both surgical and nonsurgical. In addition, most hospitals provide some outpatient services, particularly emergency care. Healthcare provided in hospitals is complex and continuously evolving, showing great variation over time, across regions, and among populations. It is subject to the latest developments in scientific discovery, newly emerging environmental circumstances, and ever changing national priorities. Involving as it does the medical care of human beings; many issues of broad public policy including access to care, patient's rights, health information security, workforce development and financing are often defined and put into action within the hospital.
Through partnering with KFMC, hospitals will reduce catheter-associated urinary tract infection by implementing the Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP), and then expand to encompass Clostridium difficile and surgical site infections. Kansas hospitals also will receive technical assistance for reporting inpatient and outpatient quality data to CMS.