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  • Quality Matters: Value-based or Values-based Care?

    Value-based care is always a discussion-starter, and federal payment programs aimed at promoting quality outcomes may be missing the mark. How do we define value, and what do some experts mean in calling attention to values-based care, rather than value-based care? we take a look.
     

    Quality Matters: Cardiac Surgery

    Recent news coming out of the Society of Thoracic Surgeons 56th Annual Meeting at the end of January offers a number of considerations related to cardiac surgery quality. This Quality Matters news brief goes beyond STS 2020 to find a detailed feature on the patient’s perspective of cardiac surgery and a breakthrough which could prevent kidney complications from cardiac surgery.
     

    Quality Matters: PCI in Cancer Patients

    ACE's latest Quality Matters news brief takes a look at the latest developments and some of the available resources and overviews of considerations for clinicians when navigating PCI with patients with cancer or who are cancer survivors.
     

    Quality Matters: Top Cardiology Stories in 2019

    Some of the top cardiology stories in 2019 certainly have takeaways for clinicians looking to integrate the latest science into practice—and a number of sources have recently published their own briefs of top stories that will provide a wealth of food for thought.
     

    Creating a Quality Culture in Cardiology - Quality Matters News Brief

    Transparency and collaboration between hospitals can help improve care according to the Pediatric Cardiac Critical Care Consortium, and a number of articles argue for the importance of physician leadership in creating a quality culture in cardiology.
     
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  • Welcome to ACE. Where Quality is our focus, and everyone wins! 

    We are the exclusive provider of Cardiac Cath/PCI Accreditation, and the specialized source for a range of performance-focused Quality Reviews for the Cath Lab. Together, our offerings are designed to achieve one thing: assure that our clients embrace and realize the rewards and benefits of Quality Improvement...today, and on a continuing basis.

    When a lab takes up the Quality challenge with ACE, it’s easy to see how everyone wins: physicians, lab managers and staff, administration, insurers, and especially patients. ACE does this by:

    • Focusing our Accreditation and Quality Reviews on performance and process optimization...helping customers
      embrace long term CQI practices that have a positive ripple effect through the institution
    • Reducing complexity, helping customers achieve a clear Quality ‘focus’ and easy implementation
    • Engaging physicians and the full lab team, and the institution as a whole
    • Applying our extensive expertise to assure that ACE clients achieve performance results efficiently, cost effectively,
      securely, and can operate with reduced risk
    It is our goal to show our customers a smarter way to live Quality and realize its many benefits. These web pages are
    designed to help you see how you can benefit. So, view our Accreditation and Quality Review videos. Read the latest
    Articles and Presentations. And get your questions answered in our FAQ section. Get started by clicking here
    for Accreditation information, and click here for the Quality Review story.

    Contact an ACE representative to learn more. Call 202-657-6859, or email info@cvexcel.org
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