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

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Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportuniti...

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From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

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From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

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Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...

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Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

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Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

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Year after year, America’s hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs. In 200...

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During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

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43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

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What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

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What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

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One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

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Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

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Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

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"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

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"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

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Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

October 22nd, 2012
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A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...

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Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

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Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

October 1st, 2012
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Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

October 1st, 2012
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By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

September 24th, 2012
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Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...

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Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

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Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...

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Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

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Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...

July 30th, 2012
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Though more work needs to be done, our nation's hospitals are making advancements in providing qu...

July 23rd, 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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Small but mighty describes Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hosp...

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E-mail, e-books, e-commerce. And now for patients, eVisits. At the University of Pittsburgh Medic...

July 2nd, 2012
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Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...

June 18th, 2012
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Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

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Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

June 11th, 2012
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It?s estimated that patients remember and understand about half of the information they receive f...

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Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...

May 21st, 2012
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May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...

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May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...

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Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

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Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

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The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

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Communication breakdowns continue to be a leading cause of medical errors. Staff at Butler County...

April 23rd, 2012
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For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

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For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

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For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...

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For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...

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Walk into an ER for treatment and walk out with a medical home. Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospit...

March 26th, 2012
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Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

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Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

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Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...

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This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...

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Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

February 27th, 2012
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Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...

February 13th, 2012
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Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...

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Teamwork benefits seniors, too. A partnership between Wishard Health Services?a large safety net ...

February 6th, 2012
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When Kaiser Permanente in California measured its incidence of pressure ulcers in patients three ...

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Implementing quality improvement projects can improve patient safety and reduce inefficiency. But...

January 23rd, 2012
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A strategy to use a single, integrated EMR has helped make Elliot Health System, based in Manches...

January 9th, 2012
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Carolinas HealthCare System, based in Charlotte, N.C., is partnering with 12 YMCA branches "to cr...

December 19th, 2011
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Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...

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A technique used in aviation is being applied to health care once again. To detect early malfunct...

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To promote healthy communities, hospitals must lead the way and serve as role models. A recent AH...

November 28th, 2011
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Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...

November 21st, 2011
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Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

November 14th, 2011
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Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...

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Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...

October 31st, 2011
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"App" and "austerity" were among the 2010 "words of the year" named by a dialect society and dict...

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How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed crit...

October 17th, 2011
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How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed crit...

October 17th, 2011
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Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...

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Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...

October 3rd, 2011
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A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

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A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

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The answer is: attracting, retaining and developing the best workforce. The question: What is one...

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Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...

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Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

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Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

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Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...

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Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...

August 1st, 2011
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Responding to an explosive growth in patient population, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented a su...

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"We will open the doors." This was no magic incantation. Instead, the critical care unit at Virgi...

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Poor planning. High costs. These issues helped prompt Saint Joseph-London in London, Ky., to impr...

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The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...

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Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...

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An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...

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Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

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Listening to patients and the community can spark change. The Lehigh Valley Health Network, in ea...

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Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...

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Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...

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The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...

May 2nd, 2011
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The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...

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Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

April 25th, 2011
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"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...

April 18th, 2011
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Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...

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To expertly execute a dribble handoff in basketball, communication between teammates is key. How ...

March 28th, 2011
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To expertly execute a dribble handoff in basketball, communication between teammates is key. How ...

March 28th, 2011
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Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, used "a novel approach" to ...

March 21st, 2011
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Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...

March 14th, 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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