CALNOC Announces New Partnership with the American Academy of Ambulatory Care Nursing.

As part of this work, we are engaging interested nurses to participate in our Ambulatory Endorsed Measures Technical Expert Panels (TEP). The TEP with focus on NQF endorsed ambulatory measures.

Join CALNOC's Ambulatory Endorsed Measures Technical Expert Panel.

CALNOC Launches New Learning Management System!

CALNOC's Learning Management System (LMS) provides a self-paced, on-demand learning resource to improve patient safety and quality. This web-based Learning Management System opens a world of possibilities to advance training, improve practices and facilitate continual education courses that can be taken at your own pace and time so as not to disrupt your normal schedules.

The CALNOC LMS Courses are available on a fee or free basis depending on the subject. Registration is required for all classes. Offerings include the CALNOC Medication Administration Accuracy Program(®), Using CALNOC Reports, and ROI Beyond the Numbers are just a few of the courses offered.

Register for a Course Today with CALNOC !

CALNOC Recognized as Specialized Registry for Meaningful Use Incentive Program

CALNOC is now a “Specialized Registry” that can accept data from Certified Electronic Health Records (EHR).

Eligible Hospitals (EH) and Critical Access Hospitals (CAH) may use CALNOC to fulfill criteria for Meaningful Use EHR Incentive Programs; Public Health Objective Measure 3, submission of data for specialized registry reporting.

To register intent and start your process to submit data, please call 888-586-1994 or email calnocmuinfo@calnoc.org.

CALNOC will be beginning the Registry with one nursing-sensitive indicator, the incidence of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers, stage 3+, and EHR reporting will have its own place in the CALNOC data files. Fees may apply to participate. Contact CALNOC for more information. Please note that although the February 29th deadline has passed, some EH and CEHR may still be able to participate in this program. Please review these New and Updated FAQ;s from CMS:

CMS new and updated FAQs on Public Health Reporting...

CALNOC Launches New Measures to Support Quality Improvement in Ambulatory Care

The new CALNOC Ambulatory Measures allow quality to be measured across the entire care continuum.

Over 1 Million Patients Surveyed!

CALNOC hospitals have observed over 1 million patients for pressure ulcers in 16 years of data collection. Our database now contains detailed pressure ulcer prevention records on 1,030,524 patients!

Local hospital gets kudos for work on pressure ulcers

Three CALNOC Performance Excellence Winners are featured in this Sacramento Bee article on the significant strides hospitals are making to eliminate pressure ulcers.

The CALNOC Advantage™

Empowering Nurses to Collaborate & Share Data

With nursing sensitive indicators and HCAHPS measures directly tied to reimbursement, there will be a direct effect on increasingly sensitive bottom lines for hospitals who must continually respond to new clinical, operational and regulatory demands. This is why more and more hospitals are joining CALNOC and its mission to advance global patient care excellence.

CALNOC was developed by nurses and is still managed and operated by nurses.

Why CALNOC?

What is the CALNOC Advantage?

Leadership and Innovation

CALNOC was founded over 20 years ago, by nurse leaders who saw the value in collective knowledge of important data and research. The registry was developed developed the registry, specific to the growing and changing nursing and healthcare environment. Founded by Nurses. For Nurses. Managed by Nurses.

CALNOC contributed to the development of the National Quality Forum (NQF) nurse sensitive metrics and is the measure developer for the NQF Pressure Ulcer and Restraint Use prevalence measures for acute care. CALNOC is also the first to introduce a nursing sensitive medication administration process and outcome safety measure.

Regulatory Compliance & Accreditation

Participation in CALNOC assists hospitals in demonstrating compliance with regulatory, reimbursement, and accreditation requirements. CALNOC is a recognized registry for Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) and Joint Commission (TJC) and has been approved for Magnet Qualification.

Best Practices

Using CALNOC, staffing and other costs are lowered while quality and access to the highest quality care through evidence based practices increases. Best practices research looks at top performers and what’s different for them, the structure and processes that help them reach their goals for highly reliable care.