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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
This article explores how geographic health information systems can be used to improve the health...
Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...
St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...
Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...
This annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health c...
Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...
The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...
In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...
This articles explores how HealthPartners decided to target nonclinical determinants of populatio...
Many of the nation's hospitals and health systems have made progress laying the building blocks f...
Board members have a critical role to play in setting the tone for meaningful quality improvement...
The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...
The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...
This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...
New Ulm Medical CenterNew Ulm, MN45 Beds The Problem New Ulm Medical Center, a critical access h...
Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...
Yuma District HospitalYuma, CO12 Beds The Problem Yuma District Hospital, located in Yuma, Color...
In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc., have had a long-...
Young children who missed more than half of recommended well-child visits had up to twice the ris...
Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...
Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...
Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...
Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...
"Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care" expands on four strategies originally identified in...
Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...
Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...
Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...
Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...
HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...
The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...
According to the Pew research center, 74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...
The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...
After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
This webinar provided an understanding of how scientific operations management and IHO Variabilit...
The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...
Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportuniti...
The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...
Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...
Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...
Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...
Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...
Sentara HealthcareNorfolk, VA Sentara Healthcare is a nonprofit health care system headquartered...
Saint Elizabeth’s Medical CenterWabasha, MN25 Beds Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center, part of Min...
Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...
Use this tool to assess whether your health-related organization or system, or coalition of organ...
In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...
In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...
The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...
Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...
A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...
Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...
Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...
The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...
Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...
Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...
Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...
Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...
This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...
Bernard J. Tyson, a Kaiser Permanente employee and leader for 28 years and its chief operating of...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
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