Board members have a critical role to play in setting the tone for meaningful quality improvement...

July 17th, 2013
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The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...

July 10th, 2013
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This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...

July 2nd, 2013
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The aviation industry has successfully used checklists to ensure safe air travel for passengers a...

July 1st, 2013
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The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

March 26th, 2013
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Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

March 12th, 2013
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The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

March 12th, 2013
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Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...

February 25th, 2013
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Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...

February 7th, 2013
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Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

November 19th, 2012
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Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

November 8th, 2012
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HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...

October 31st, 2012
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It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

October 25th, 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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Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

September 20th, 2012
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The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

September 1st, 2012
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Marking its 60th anniversary last year, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, can count many accompli...

July 16th, 2012
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Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

July 1st, 2012
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Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...

June 1st, 2012
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At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

June 1st, 2012
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