Patient Safety Organizations: Delisting for Cause for The Steward Group PSO, 42737 [2012-17532]
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Dated: July 13, 2012.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND
HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and
Quality
Patient Safety Organizations: Delisting
for Cause for The Steward Group PSO
Agency for Healthcare Research
and Quality (AHRQ), HHS.
ACTION: Notice of delisting.
AGENCY:
AHRQ has delisted The
Steward Group PSO as a Patient Safety
Organization (PSO) due to its failure to
correct a deficiency. The Patient Safety
and Quality Improvement Act of 2005
(Patient Safety Act) authorizes the
listing of PSOs, which are entities or
component organizations whose
mission and primary activity is to
conduct activities to improve patient
safety and the quality of health care
delivery. HHS issued the Patient Safety
and Quality Improvement Final Rule
(Patient Safety Rule) to implement the
Patient Safety Act. AHRQ administers
the provisions of the Patient Safety Act
and Patient Safety Rule relating to the
listing and operation of PSOs.
DATES: The directories for both listed
and delisted PSOs are ongoing and
reviewed weekly by AHRQ. The
delisting was effective at 12:00 Midnight
ET (2400) on June 19, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Both directories can be
accessed electronically at the following
HHS Web site: https://
www.PSO.AHRQ.gov/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT:
Eileen Hogan, Center for Quality
Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ,
540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD 20850;
Telephone (toll free): (866) 403–3697;
Telephone (local): (301) 427–1111; TTY
(toll free): (866) 438–7231; TTY (local):
(301) 427–1130; Email:
PSO@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUMMARY:
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SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Patient Safety Act, Public Law
109–41, 42 U.S.C. 299b–21—b–26,
provides for the formation of PSOs,
which collect, aggregate, and analyze
confidential information regarding the
quality and safety of health care
delivery. The Patient Safety Rule, 42
CFR part 3, authorizes AHRQ, on behalf
of the Secretary of HHS, to list as a PSO
an entity that attests that it meets the
statutory and regulatory requirements
for listing. A PSO can be ‘‘delisted’’ by
the Secretary if it is found no longer to
meet the requirements of the Patient
Safety Act and Patient Safety Rule.
Section 3.108(d) of the Patient Safety
Rule requires AHRQ to provide public
notice when it removes an organization
from the list of federally approved
PSOs.
The Steward Group PSO failed to
respond to a Notice of Preliminary
Finding of Deficiency sent by AHRQ
pursuant to 42 CFR 3.108(a)(2) and a
Notice of Proposed Revocation and
Delisting sent by AHRQ pursuant to 42
CFR 3.108(a)(3)(iii)(C) which found that
The Steward Group PSO failed to have,
within every 24-month period following
the PSO’s date of initial listing, at least
two bona fide contracts with different
providers for the purpose of receiving
and reviewing patient safety work
product, and to notify AHRQ no later
than 45 calendar days prior to the last
day of the pertinent 24-month period
that the PSO has met this requirement.
The Steward Group PSO did not
exercise its opportunity to be heard in
writing to respond to the deficiencies
specified in the notices, and has not
provided any evidence of a good faith
effort to correct the deficiency.
Accordingly, AHRQ has revoked the
listing of The Steward Group PSO, PSO
number P0088, a component entity of
The Steward Group, Inc., effective at
12:00 Midnight ET (2400) on June 19,
2012.
More information on PSOs can be
obtained through AHRQ’s PSO Web site
at https://www.PSO.AHRQ.gov/
index.html.
Dated: July 3, 2012.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES
Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
Patient Safety Organizations: Delisting for Cause for The Steward
Group PSO
AGENCY: Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), HHS.
ACTION: Notice of delisting.
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SUMMARY: AHRQ has delisted The Steward Group PSO as a Patient Safety
Organization (PSO) due to its failure to correct a deficiency. The
Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (Patient Safety Act)
authorizes the listing of PSOs, which are entities or component
organizations whose mission and primary activity is to conduct
activities to improve patient safety and the quality of health care
delivery. HHS issued the Patient Safety and Quality Improvement Final
Rule (Patient Safety Rule) to implement the Patient Safety Act. AHRQ
administers the provisions of the Patient Safety Act and Patient Safety
Rule relating to the listing and operation of PSOs.
DATES: The directories for both listed and delisted PSOs are ongoing
and reviewed weekly by AHRQ. The delisting was effective at 12:00
Midnight ET (2400) on June 19, 2012.
ADDRESSES: Both directories can be accessed electronically at the
following HHS Web site: https://www.PSO.AHRQ.gov/.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Eileen Hogan, Center for Quality
Improvement and Patient Safety, AHRQ, 540 Gaither Road, Rockville, MD
20850; Telephone (toll free): (866) 403-3697; Telephone (local): (301)
427-1111; TTY (toll free): (866) 438-7231; TTY (local): (301) 427-1130;
Email: PSO@AHRQ.hhs.gov.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The Patient Safety Act, Public Law 109-41, 42 U.S.C. 299b-21--b-26,
provides for the formation of PSOs, which collect, aggregate, and
analyze confidential information regarding the quality and safety of
health care delivery. The Patient Safety Rule, 42 CFR part 3,
authorizes AHRQ, on behalf of the Secretary of HHS, to list as a PSO an
entity that attests that it meets the statutory and regulatory
requirements for listing. A PSO can be ``delisted'' by the Secretary if
it is found no longer to meet the requirements of the Patient Safety
Act and Patient Safety Rule. Section 3.108(d) of the Patient Safety
Rule requires AHRQ to provide public notice when it removes an
organization from the list of federally approved PSOs.
The Steward Group PSO failed to respond to a Notice of Preliminary
Finding of Deficiency sent by AHRQ pursuant to 42 CFR 3.108(a)(2) and a
Notice of Proposed Revocation and Delisting sent by AHRQ pursuant to 42
CFR 3.108(a)(3)(iii)(C) which found that The Steward Group PSO failed
to have, within every 24-month period following the PSO's date of
initial listing, at least two bona fide contracts with different
providers for the purpose of receiving and reviewing patient safety
work product, and to notify AHRQ no later than 45 calendar days prior
to the last day of the pertinent 24-month period that the PSO has met
this requirement. The Steward Group PSO did not exercise its
opportunity to be heard in writing to respond to the deficiencies
specified in the notices, and has not provided any evidence of a good
faith effort to correct the deficiency.
Accordingly, AHRQ has revoked the listing of The Steward Group PSO,
PSO number P0088, a component entity of The Steward Group, Inc.,
effective at 12:00 Midnight ET (2400) on June 19, 2012.
More information on PSOs can be obtained through AHRQ's PSO Web
site at https://www.PSO.AHRQ.gov/.
Dated: July 3, 2012.
Carolyn M. Clancy,
Director.
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