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AHA Webinars

Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...

May 11th, 2017
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Hospitalwide DVT Diagnosis and Treatment Process for Improved Quality of Care, Patient Experience and Cost Management

Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

September 16th, 2016
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Cultural Competence Training: Creative Tools, Various Formats, Low Cost and Impactful

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, a division of Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc., is a Catholic, no...

March 12th, 2013
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A Guide to Measuring the Triple Aim: Population Health, Experience of Care, and Per Capita Cost

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

December 3rd, 2012
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In-Home Palliative Care Allows More Patients to Die at Home, Leading to Higher Satisfaction and Lower Acute Care Utilization and Costs

Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

November 7th, 2012
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Improving Sepsis Mortality and Cost of Care through Quality Improvement

Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

June 1st, 2012
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The Value of an Organized Fracture Program for the Elderly: Improved Outcomes and Reduced Costs

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

February 1st, 2012
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Hospital Readmission after Colon Surgery, Common, Costly and Preventable

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

November 16th, 2011
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