Prevention Quality Indicators

Treasure Coast Health Council is currently involved in a statewide initiative to identify and reduce avoidable hospital inpatient admissions.

The Florida Statewide Prevention Quality Indicator Initiative (PQI) will analyze emergency room and hospital inpatient admission data across the state and determine which hospital and emergency room admissions could have been prevented had quality primary care and preventative services been accessible.  Admissions due to congestive heart failure, hypertension and diabetes are among the fourteen admission diagnoses considered to be Prevention Quality Indicators.

Treasure Coast Health Council is collaborating with all of Florida’s Local Health Councils, Memorial Healthcare System, North Broward Hospital District, the Institute for Child Health Policy at Nova Southeastern University and NEX Consulting, LLC to examine inpatient avoidable admissions data and develop intervention strategies to decrease these admissions.

 More detailed information - and an online database which is currently under construction - is available on the website of the project’s lead agency, Broward Regional Health Planning Council at http://www.brhpc.org/.  We anticipate the online database to be fully operational by June 2009.

 Please contact Barbara Feeney, TCHC’s Director of Health Planning if you have any questions or would like to provide input regarding this project (e.g. types of reports that would be useful for your planning needs).  (561) 844-4220 x 27 or: mailto:bfeeney@tchealthcouncil.org