The Hospital-Based Inpatient Psychiatric Services (HBIPS) core measure initiative is a major national leadership effort to improve quality, safety, and performance of hospital-based inpatient psychiatric services through the collaboration of hospitals, physicians, and consumers.

It is part of The Joint Commission accreditation process. Beginning with October 1, 2008, discharges, both freestanding psychiatric hospitals and psychiatric units in general hospitals may select the HBIPS measure set to help them meet their ORYX performance measurement reporting requirements.

  • For freestanding psychiatric hospitals, ORYX requirements can be satisfied by adopting the HBIPS measure set OR 9 non-core measures. The HBIPS measure set will become mandatory after the set receives National Quality Forum (NQF) endorsement and is placed on the Hospital Quality Alliance (HQA) agenda. At that time, non-core measures will no longer be accepted.
  • For general hospitals with psychiatric units, HBIPS becomes an additional set of core measures that can be selected. It is not mandatory for general hospitals to select the HBIPS measure set. However, significant value can be derived from use of this measure set, and hospitals are encouraged to adopt it.

HBIPS is creating standardization of measures, data specifications, and definitions to help hospitals compare their performance within hospital-based psychiatric services to that of their peers. Get details at www.jointcommission.org/hbips.

  • Learn more about the public-private partnership. NAPHS and its partners (including the National Association of State Mental Health Program Directors, the NASMHPD Research Institute, Inc., in collaboration with the American Psychiatric Association and The Joint Commission) are playing a leadership role in efforts now underway to identify core measures for inpatient psychiatric services. Read about the association’s work in a 2005 Special Report (.pdf).
  • Hear a 9/29/08 media briefing: AUDIO
    • Frank Ghinassi, PhD, chair, HBIPS Technical Advisory Panel; chair, NAPHS Performance Measurement Committee; vice president, Quality and Performance Improvement, Western Psychiatric Institute & Clinic/University of Pittsburgh Medical Center; assistant professor in psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh Medical School
    • Richard C. Hermann, MD, MS, associate professor of medicine and psychiatry,Tufts University School of Medicine; director, Center for Quality Assessment and Improvement in Mental Health, Tufts-NEMC Institute for Clinical Research and Health Policy Studies
    • Celeste Milton, MPH, BSN, RN, associate project director, Center for Performance Measurement, The Joint Commission

HBIPS is one of many quality initiatives in which NAPHS is involved.

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