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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The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

September 1st, 2011
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March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

March 7th, 2011
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This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...

January 1st, 2011
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This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

January 1st, 2011
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The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

October 26th, 2010
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"There are two jobs at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare, Utica, N.Y. "taking care of patients directl...

March 15th, 2010
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The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...

August 1st, 2009
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W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...

September 9th, 2008
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