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In 2015, the geriatric and palliative care team at South Nassau Communities Hospital sponsored a ...
Stony Brook University Hospital coordinated efforts with its emergency department and ambulatory ...
In response to a rapidly transforming health care environment, hospitals and health systems acros...
BackgroundHenry Ford Health System is a not-for-profit corporation composed of hospitals, medical...
BackgroundIllinois Valley Community Hospital is a 49-bed, not-for-profit hospital located in Peru...
BackgroundMedStar Health is a not-for-profit health system in the Maryland and Washington, D.C., ...
BackgroundMultiCare Health System is a not-for-profit health care organization based in Tacoma, W...
BackgroundOchsner Health System in southeast Louisiana manages 13 hospitals and more than 40 heal...
After recognizing asthma as a major condition for many patients in the emergency department, St. ...
Hospitals are working to achieve all elements of the Triple Aim by redesigning traditional ways o...
At hospitals and health care systems across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are lea...
Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...
The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...
The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...
Concurrent review of three core measure sets has ensured appropriate and timely patient care. The...
The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...
Reducing inpatient length of stay has a strong impact on value and organizational performance, an...
Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...
Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...
In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...
Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...
Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...
The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...
The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to trans...
Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...
Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...
A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...
As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...
Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...
In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...
The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...
The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...
North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...
The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...
Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...
Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...
The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...
North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...
TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...
Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...
As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...
New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...
Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...
The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...
In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...
The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...
This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...
In 2015, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded HRET to strengthen care transitions by crea...
TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...
NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...
The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...
The concept of the Triple Aim is widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...
Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...
This project was designed to improve the total health care for patients of a community mental hea...
This toolkit has tips on Selecting Patients and Families to Serve as Advisors Preparation fo...
The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...
At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...
Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....
This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...
Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls a...
The answer is HPOE.org. The question: Where do hospital and care system leaders find resources an...
Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...
This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...
This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...
Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...
Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...
The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...
The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
Disparities in care were noted for diabetes, cardio vascular disease and cancer screeening for Hm...
Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...
African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...
Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...
The driving principle behind the outpatient service excellence journey is excellent customer serv...
This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...
Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...
Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...
Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...
Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...
Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...
Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...
At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...
Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...
Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...
Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...
This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...
AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...
At-large members are individuals in health care with an interest in the activities of the AHA and...
The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...
Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...
Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...
The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...
How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...
An article on the SF Gate website profiles the new wave of medical school graduates, millennial a...
Between March and June 2012, Jackson Healthcare conducted a series of online physician surveys th...
Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...
As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...