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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...
United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...
South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...
Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....
Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...
To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...
Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...
Rooftop gardens are flourishing atop more and more hospitals. On unused roof space at Castle Medi...
Providing world-class quality health care may seem an audacious goal for a small or rural hospita...
Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable imp...
This resource gives hospital and health system leaders concrete, practical steps grounded on evid...
Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...
Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...
The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...
Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...
African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...
There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...
Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...
Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...
Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...
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...
Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...
Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...
Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...
Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...
Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...
While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...
Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...
SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...
A recent article from the Los Angeles Times looks at how the traditional doctor-patient relations...
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...
Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...
This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...
This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...
The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...
AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...
AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...
Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...
Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have the promise to transform how health care is delivered ...
During this 90 minute session, speakers discussed how to effectively engage patients and their fa...
The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...
Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...
The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...
This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...
n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...
This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the car...
A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...