Ramapo Anesthesia Doctor Shares His Expertise at Industry Gathering

Dr. Neal Kurtti, M.D., vice president and chairman of the Performance Improvement Program of Ramapo Anesthesia in Suffern, has been invited to speak at the 5th Annual New Jersey Association of Ambulatory Surgery Centers’ Review at The Revel Hotel in Atlantic City, NJ, on May 21.
Kurtti has been an anesthesiologist at Ramapo Anesthesia since 1991. He attended SUNY Downstate Medical Center in Brooklyn and performed his residency at New York University Medical Center. Kurtti completed his fellowship training in Cardiovascular Anesthesia at N.Y.U. and his Pediatric Cardiovascular Anesthesia at Harvard Medical School.
Kurtti is scheduled to speak about the nationally-recognized Performance Improvement Program created and implemented at Ramapo Anesthesia. The program ensures clinical quality, practitioner's competence, operating room efficiency, and patient/surgeon satisfaction. It features analysis of every anesthetic delivered by the organization and automated quality tracking and reporting.
“Years ago, we called it quality assurance or improvement, and then performance improvement,” said Kurtti. “Today, the core of our Performance Improvement Program has new acronyms that better define a proactive approach to identifying at-risk physicians, rather than simply reacting after the fact to a poor outcome. I believe that by establishing this program at all eight of our hospitals, Ramapo Anesthesia provides a quality of care that has been central to our success. We have computerized metrics on every case, which allows us to closely monitor our physicians, and provide the detailed information that administrative groups are looking for in the EMR age.”