The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

June 9th, 2015
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United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

April 21st, 2015
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South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...

April 21st, 2015
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Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

April 21st, 2015
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Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...

April 6th, 2015

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

March 26th, 2015
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Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...

December 16th, 2014
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Rooftop gardens are flourishing atop more and more hospitals. On unused roof space at Castle Medi...

March 24th, 2014
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Providing world-class quality health care may seem an audacious goal for a small or rural hospita...

March 10th, 2014
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Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable imp...

August 21st, 2013
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This resource gives hospital and health system leaders concrete, practical steps grounded on evid...

July 16th, 2013
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Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...

May 20th, 2013
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Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...

May 13th, 2013
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The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...

March 12th, 2013
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Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...

March 12th, 2013
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African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

March 12th, 2013
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There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

March 12th, 2013
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Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

January 14th, 2013
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Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

January 1st, 2013
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Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

January 1st, 2013
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Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

January 1st, 2013
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Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

January 1st, 2013
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Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

January 1st, 2013
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Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

January 1st, 2013
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Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...

January 1st, 2013
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Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

November 29th, 2012
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Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...

November 16th, 2012
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While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

November 13th, 2012
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Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

October 21st, 2012
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SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...

October 12th, 2012
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A recent article from the Los Angeles Times looks at how the traditional doctor-patient relations...

September 13th, 2012
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Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

July 19th, 2012
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Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

June 1st, 2012
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This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

March 1st, 2012
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This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...

March 1st, 2012
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The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

February 1st, 2012
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The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

February 1st, 2012
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The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

February 1st, 2012
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AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

January 1st, 2012
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AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

January 1st, 2012
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Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...

January 1st, 2012
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Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have the promise to transform how health care is delivered ...

November 22nd, 2011
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During this 90 minute session, speakers discussed how to effectively engage patients and their fa...

November 17th, 2011
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The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

November 15th, 2011
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Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

October 19th, 2011
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The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

October 13th, 2011
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This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...

October 1st, 2011
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n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

October 1st, 2011
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This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the car...

September 15th, 2011
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A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

September 8th, 2011
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