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* The Centers for Medicare Medicaid Services (CMS) partnered with the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ), to develop HCAHPS Voluntary collection of HCAHPS data for public reporting began in October 2006. The first public reporting of HCAHPS results, which encompassed eligible discharges from October 2006 through June 2007, occurred in March 2008 Beginning in July 2007, hospitals subject to IPPS payment provisions (subsection (d) hospitals) must collect and submit HCAHPS data in order to receive their full IPPS annual payment update (APU) for fiscal year 2008. * The so-called never events Patients must be screened at time of admission and documentation present in the medical record that a condition was present on admission in order for the hospital to receive full payment under Medicare. Patient admitted with pressure ulcer for example must have this documented in the medical record at the time of admission or it will be considered to have been acquired while in the hospital and hospital charges related to its treatment will be denied for payment. * Recognizing nurses’ contribution to patient safety and quality outcomes, NQF embarked on the ‘Nursing Care Performance Measures’ project in February 2003 to:? identify a framework for how to measure nursing care performance, with particular attention to the performance of nurses as teams and their contributions to the overall healthcare team; endorse a set of voluntary consensus standards for evaluating the quality of nursing care (including designating consensus standards that are appropriate for public reporting); and identify and prioritize unresolved issues regarding nursing care performance measurement and research needs.? A report of this consensus project was published in 2004, describing the 15 NQF-endorsed voluntary consensus standards for nursing-sensitive care and the process that lead to their endorsement. In 2005, with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) and working