Welcome to the Virginia Cardiac Surgery Quality Initiative website. This site is intended for physicians, nursing executives, quality improvement specialists, and others interested in enhancing the quality of cardiac surgery outcomes and making best use of scarce resources.
Dr. Speir, preparing for his presentation on the Additive Costs of Post-Operative Complications at the STS Annual Meeting in January 2009 looks over his glasses at Gyula feeling awestruck yet perplexed. "How did he do that?," Alan says to himself. Meanwhile, Gyula, looking over his glasses at the computer screen, aware of the speaker's prevailing tension, says to Eddie, "there's a little trick to this, but let's keep him guessing."
VCSQI is a voluntary consortium of 16 hospitals and 10 cardiac surgical practices providing open-heart surgery in the Commonwealth of Virginia. VSCQI’s members perform over 99 percent of Virginia’s open-heart procedures. The group has convened since 1996, comparing data and exchanging information to improve the quality of surgical care and contain costs. VCSQI helps implement protocls to reduce post-operative complications, was involved in the adoption of quality measures in cardiac surgery for the National Quality Forum, and has formulated policies on pay for performance programs.
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