IHA case studies

    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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    Automated Wellbeing Checks by Text and Email Enhance the Care of Discharged Emergency Department and Immediate Care Patients

    In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Improving the Hospitalist-Primary Care Provider (PCP) Discharge Handoff

    Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Lean Six Sigma Reduces Wait Time on Day of Discharge by 28 Percent in a Critical Access Hospital

    Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

    October 6th, 2015
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    Improving Performance Using Evidence-Based Principles; Improving Discharge to Prevent Hospital Readmission of Heart Failure Patients

    The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

    May 27th, 2015
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    Improving Heart Failure Discharge Outcomes--The Project RED Pilot

    Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

    March 31st, 2013
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