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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...
Identifying solutions to reduce hospital-acquired conditions. Working to spread this knowledge to...
Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls a...
The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...
Making incremental changes and collaborating with area hospitals and community organizations have...
For six months, Brandywine Hospital has not had one central line-associated bloodstream infection...
Nearly 1,500 U.S. hospitals are working to eliminate patient harm and reduce hospital readmission...
Presence St. Mary’s Hospital, Kankakee, Ill., improved readmission rates for heart failure patien...
Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...
Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...
Hospitals and care systems across the country are engaged in quality improvement efforts to impro...
Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...
Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...
The Stars of the Field is H&HN's second annual AHA awards issue. Hospitals that are making tremen...
The culture of an organization can actively support the commitment of its workforce by providing ...
The hospital applied for the Joint Commission certification as a Primary Stroke Center. In order...
It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...
Small tests of change can give hospitals momentum and show early progress in improvement projects...
Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...
A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...
Since 2010, the academic medical center has been supporting a program to reduce 30-day all cause ...
Approximately 11,000 fatal patient falls occur in U.S. hospitals annually, but hospitals using ne...
This podcast series explores a variety of different topics around patient safety and performance ...
Improving care after discharge translates to decreased readmissions. Marshall Medical Center, a 1...
There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...
This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital ...
The National Patient Safety Foundation leads Patient Safety Awareness Week in early March to prom...
Each year, the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement takes an in-depth look at a single topic ...
The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides are a suite of tools that include ...