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After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...
The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...
The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...
The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...
In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...
A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...
This webinar provided an understanding of how scientific operations management and IHO Variabilit...
A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...
A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...
This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...
The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...
Development of a Norwood Clinic allowed the quality improvement team to create goals to decrease ...
The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...
From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...
From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...
Webinars and presentations from the New England Health Impact Assessment Training Series in 2012.
What is it? The RXAssistance Patient Assistance Program initiative began in 2005 as a collaborati...
St. John?s Institute for Cognitive Health and the University of Utah Center for Alzheimer?s Care,...
In 2007, Cheyenne Regional lent its name, planning/advocacy staff, and financial resources to par...
he camp, a collaboration with Area Health Education Center (AHEC) and the University of Wyoming C...
Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...
Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...
Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...
Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...
Saint Elizabeth’s Medical CenterWabasha, MN25 Beds Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center, part of Min...
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...
Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...
Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...
Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...
Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders were at a higher risk of po...
This report identifies steps that policy, public health and community stakeholders can take to pr...
In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...
The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...
Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...
A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...
The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...
Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...
Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...
Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...
The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...
Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...
For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak c...
While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...
At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...