Reports & Guides

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	Eliminating Health Care Disparities: Implementing the National Call to Action Using Lessons Learned- February 2012 This guide looks at nine hospitals and health systems and summarizes each organization's key successes toward providing equity in care in one of the three areas: increasing the collection of race, ethnicity, and language preference data, increasing cultural competency training for clinicians and support staff, or increasing diversity in governance and management. Click here to download pdf file.
	Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence: A Compendium of Implementation Guides: - July 2011 ^{digital edition!} A collection of 2010- 2011 HPOE/HRET guides. Click here to download pdf file.


	Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence: A Compendium of Implementation Guides: - July 2010 A collection of HPOE/HRET guides published prior to July 2010.
Improving Health Equity Through Data Collection and Use - Click image to view video on H&HN Daily

Reports are broken down into the following categories:

Care Coordination
Culture and Workforce
Equity
Health and Wellness
Health Information Technology
New Payment and Care Delivery Models
Patient Safety

Care Coordination

	Health Care Leader Action Guide to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions - January 2010 This guide helps hospital leaders assess, prioritize, implement and monitor strategies to reduce avoidable readmissions during hospitalization, as well as at discharge and post-discharge. Click here to download presentation slides.

Culture and Workforce

	Allied Hospital Association Leadership for Quality – 2011 Using examples from the applicants for the American Hospital Association’s inaugural Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership, this guide describes the common elements of implementing successful performance improvement initiatives among hospitals and health systems.
	Competency-Based Governance: A foundation for Board and Organizational Effectiveness - February 2009 This blue-ribbon panel report from the Center for Healthcare Governance makes the case for a competency-based approach to governance that can help drive performance and help boards address the multiple challenges facing hospitals under health care reform.
	Using Workforce Practices to Drive Quality Improvement: A Guide for Hospitals - June 2010 This guide provides practical advice on workforce practices that hospitals can adopt to develop a high-performing workforce that can deliver safe, high quality and efficient health care. Click here to download presentation slides.

Equity

	Building a Culturally Competent Organization: The Quest for Equity in Health Care - June 2011 This guide explores how hospitals and health systems can increase their cultural competency in order to improve quality and provide care that is respectful of patients’ diverse values, beliefs and behaviors.
	HRET Disparities Toolkit - updated in 2010 This toolkit provides a comprehensive approach to the collection of race, ethnicity and primary language data and offers guidance on how to improve quality of care and reduce health disparities.
	Improving Health Equity Through Data Collection and Use: A Guide for Hospital Leaders - March 2011 This guide explores key strategies that hospitals have adopted to collect race, ethnicity, and primary language data about their patients and use the data in efforts to overcome disparities in care. Click here to download presentation slides.

Health and Wellness

Call to Action: Creating a Culture of Health -January 2011
The AHA's Long-Range Policy Committee developed a comprehensive report, A Call to Action: Creating a Culture of Health. It highlights current practices that hospitals use today with their own employees, gives examples of promising practices, and provides how-to recommendations to the field to be leaders of health in their communities.
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Health Information Technology

	Health Care Leader Action Guide on Implementation of Electronic Health Records - July 2010 This report provides a roadmap to help senior executives develop a strategy to use EHRs that advances the organization's ability to deliver care that is safer, effective and efficient. Click here to download presentation slides.

New Payment and Care Delivery Models

	Striving for Top Box: Hospitals Increasing Quality and Efficiency - April 2011 This guide showcases three organizations' strategies to implement performance improvement processes. Their goals are to improve efficiency and quality of patient care.
	ACHI Community Health Assessment Toolkit- updated in 2010 This toolkit from the Association for Community Health Improvement (ACHI) provides a strategic and thoughtful approach to facilitating better health results for hospital communities.
	AHA Research Synthesis Report: Accountable Care Organizations - June 2010 This guide presents ideas to consider in developing an ACO and reviews the key competencies that are needed in order to be an accountable ACO. Click here to download presentation slides.
	AHA Research Synthesis Report: Bundled Payment - March 2010 An AHA Research Synthesis Report presents an overview of bundled payment, including evidence of its impact in the public and private sector, as well as questions that must be considered. Click here to download presentation slides.
	AHA Research Synthesis Report: Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) - September 2010 This synthesis report presents an overview of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), including key features, discussion of federal, state, and private sector medical home models, and considerations for hospitals interested in developing a PCMH. Click here to download presentation slides.
	Early Learnings from the Bundled Payment Acute Care Episode Demonstration Project - July 2010 An overview and summary of lessons learned from the current CMS pilot project, the CMS Acute Care Episode Demonstration Project, that is testing the effect of bundling Part A and B payments for episodes of care improve coordination, quality and efficiency of care. Click here to download presentation slides.
	A Guide to Financing Strategies for Hospitals - With Special Consideration for Smaller Hospitals - December 2010 Explores seven strategies that can help hospitals achieve the best possible capital access. Click here to download presentation slides.
	A Health Care Leader Action Guide: Understanding and Managing Variation - February 2011 The guide includes practical steps to understanding and managing variation and a list of best practices and case studies as examples and resources for hospital leaders to use for implementing key interventions. Click here to download presentation slides.

Patient Safety

	A Guide to Achieving High Performance in Multi-Hospital Health Systems - March 2010 The guide provides numerous tools that leaders can use to help drive performance improvement regardless if they are part of a health system; the lessons are transferrable to all hospitals. Click here to download presentation slides.
	A Health Care Leader Action Guide: Hospital Strategies for Reducing Preventable Mortality - February 2011 This guide is designed to assist hospital leaders in improving quality and performance by outlining eight steps on ways reduce for reducing preventable mortality. Click here to download presentation slides.
	A Health Care Leader Action Guide: Understanding and Managing Variation - February 2011 The guide includes practical steps to understanding and managing variation and a list of best practices and case studies as examples and resources for hospital leaders to use for implementing key interventions. Click here to download presentation slides.
	Health Care Leader Action Guide to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions - January 2010 This guide helps hospital leaders assess, prioritize, implement and monitor strategies to reduce avoidable readmissions during hospitalization, as well as at discharge and post-discharge. Click here to download presentation slides.
	Hand Hygiene Project: Best Practices from Hospitals Participating in the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Project - November 2010 This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve work processes and identify causes and targeted solutions for failure to clean hands. Click here to download presentation slides.

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