The Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance (PHCQA) has released its annual report, 2017 Pennsylvania State of the State. This year, PHCQA analyzed multi-year performance trends for HCAHPS patient experience measures, cancer care process measures, mortality rates, and readmission rates. New to this year’s report are emergency department measures, infection measures, and five mortality and readmission measures, including COPD readmission and mortality, hip and/or knee surgery readmission, heart bypass surgery readmission, and hospital-wide readmission measures. To view the report, click here.
