May 11, 2009
Tampa General Hospital (TGH), an 958-bed acute care hospital in Tampa, FL, and is the newest organization to subscribe to Compare AD. TGH serves a dozen counties with a population of over four million, and is one of the largest hospitals in Florida. TGH is also the primary teaching affiliate of the University of South Florida College of Medicine.

"Compare AD will allow us to benchmark with other hospitals. It will also help us talk to other subscribers and to better identify best practices. Our goal is to see if we can improve hospital processes and influence practice patterns through consistent tracking and reporting."

Steven R. McGaffigan, LCSW, ACM
Director, Case Management Department
Tampa General Hospital
Tampa, FL

April 27, 2009 West Virginia University Hospitals (WVUH) is the latest organization to subscribe to Compare AD. WVUH is a 450-bed teaching hospital located in Morgantown, WV. "WVUH strives to improve patient throughput and capacity management. The thought of being able to benchmark with other similar organizations related to avoidable delays, and look at trends is very exciting. In addition, we were very excited to be able to do this in conjunction with a system that we already have, and keep employee workflow streamlined so as to improve data capture." - Christy Whetsell, RN, MBA, ACM Director of Care Management West Virginia University Hospitals Morgantown, WV

April 24, 2009 ACMA Announces that University of North Carolina Hosptials is the latest large, academic hospital to subscribe to Compare AD. UNC Hospitals is a 690-bed acute care hospital in Chapel Hill, NC, and is the teaching hosptial for the UNC-Chapel Hill School of Medicine. "UNC Hospitals has been tracking and reporting avoidable days internally for several years, and we believe using Compare AD will strengthen that process. We are particularly excited that the ability to benchmark with other institutions will give us both internal and external measures of our progress."

- Beverly L. Wagner, RN, CCM, ACM Clinical Care Management Educator Clinical Care Management University of North Carolina Hospitals Chapel Hill, NC

January 23, 2008 ACMA announces the Compare AD subscription of Novant Health, based in Winston-Salem, NC. Novant Health is a nine hospital system, and winner of the 2008 Joint Commission Earnest Amory Codman Award*. Novant Health is composed of nine hospitals and more than 26,000 staff members and health care professionals. "Today's economic conditions are more challenging than ever for hospital/health system Case Management staff nationwide. We are excited to partner with ACMA and facilities across the country to standardize avoidable day collection/analysis. We plan to incorporate the avoidable delays tool into our everyday workflow, allowing us to capture data more consistently and efficiently. Kudos to ACMA for establishing the opportunity for benchmarking

- it is a much needed data source that will assist us in providing a remarkable patient experience." - Crystal Redding, RN / Director, Case Management Forsyth Medical Center, Novant Health / Winston-Salem, NC Novant Health will implement Compare AD at all of its system facilities, including: Forsyth Medical Center - Winston-Salem, NC Presbyterian Hospital - Charlotte, NC Presbyterian Orthopaedic Hospital - Charlotte, NC Rowan Regional Medical Center - Salisbury, NC Thomasville Medical Center - Thomasville, NC Brunswick Community Hospital - Supply, NC Medical Park Hospital - Winston-Salem, NC Presbyterian Hospital Matthews - Matthews, NC Presbyterian Hospital Huntersville - Huntersville, NC *Novant Health was named the 2008 winner of the Earnest Amory Codman Award in the Multiple Organization Category. The Codman Award highlights excellence among organizations and individuals for use of outcome measures to achieve improvements in the areas of healthcare quality and safety. To read more click here.

January 16, 2009 ACMA announces its partnership with leading Case Management software provider Morrisey Associates, Inc. The partnership will allow Morrisey to incorporate the Compare AD avoidable delay

benchmarking system into Morrisey's Concurrent Care Manager™ (MCCM™) software, streamlining the process for Morrisey customers to subscribe to Compare AD. "Morrisey is excited to expand its partnership with ACMA by integrating the Compare AD delay tracking tool into the Morrisey Concurrent Care Manager™ (MCCM™) Web-based case management module. We recognize the value of standardizing avoidable day tracking to support industry-recognized best practices and comparative reporting among healthcare organizations. We believe that Compare AD will add value to participating organizations, including our customers." - Gerald Zoldan Chairman and CEO Morrisey Associates

November 14, 2008 Compare AD and ACMA announce that Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA - one of the country's most well-known hospitals - is the latest organizations to choose Compare AD. "Compare AD will allow our staff to be more efficient and accurate in data collection. Our previous home-grown system had over 357 codes. Compare AD reduced the number of codes to less than 60. This translates to more time spent with patients/families and that is the best

outcome. Additionally, the benchmarking capability to compare with other hospitals across the country will provide us with important information." - Sharon Mass, PhD, ACM Director, Case Management & Palliative Care

November 5, 2008 Compare AD and ACMA announce the most recent hospital to choose Compare AD: Northwest Community Hospital in Arlington Heights, IL. We congratulate this progressive organization on their committment to efficiency in patient care delivery.

September 1, 2008
The new Compare AD website provides a resource for new subscribers to learn about the Compare AD system and a central location for all subscriber resources. Work is continuing on the subscriber portal, which will allow Compare AD subscribers to access resources, reports, and submit data. Subscriber portals should be completed in two to three weeks.

July 31, 2008
The first report in ACMA's new Hospital Case Management Research Series utilizes the data repository collected during 15 months of Beta testing the Compare AD system to produce a correlative study of avoidable delays. All Compare AD subscribers have been sent the report - new subscribers will also receive this report upon subscription. The study examines overall benchmarks for various delays (as a percentage of discharges), variations in delay occurrence rates based on weekend vs. weekdays, admissions source, and much more. For more information about the research series, click here.

April 28, 2008
ACMA announced partnerships with these two leading medical information management technology providers The partnership will allow these two companies to incorporate the Compare AD delay definitions into their current software solutions, streamlining the process for their users to access benchmarks and enhance patient care and performance. Compare AD subscribers who are customers of these companies will experience streamlined data collection and reporting.