The Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) is a multi-year national campaign that began in August 2005 to substantially reduce surgical mortality and morbidity through collaborative efforts. The goal is to reduce by 25% the national incidence of surgical care complications by the year 2010. This initiative is a partnership of 20 organizations committed to improving the safety of surgical care through the reduction of postoperative complications. FMQAI, the Florida Medicare Quality Improvement Organization (QIO), in conjunction with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid, will intensively support the work of select Florida acute care hospitals to implement the SCIP initiative by promoting, encouraging and assisting enrolled members of an Identified Participant Group (IPG) with the adoption of standard processes of care for the prevention of surgical site infections and venous thromboembolism. As an IPG participant, hospitals will also be measured on the use of arteriovenous fistulas for hemodialysis patients and global outcome measures, such as readmissions and mortality within 30 days of surgery.For additional information on the SCIP National Partnership, please visit: http://www.medqic.org/scip
- The Florida SCIP EMail list for the 8th Scope of Work has been closed. An EMail list for the 9th Scope of Work will be available to the Florida hospitals participating in the CMS 9th Scope of Work Patient Safety SCIP/HF project.
