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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...
A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...
Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...
E-mail, e-books, e-commerce. And now for patients, eVisits. At the University of Pittsburgh Medic...
The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...
Communication breakdowns continue to be a leading cause of medical errors. Staff at Butler County...
When Kaiser Permanente in California measured its incidence of pressure ulcers in patients three ...
Implementing quality improvement projects can improve patient safety and reduce inefficiency. But...
A strategy to use a single, integrated EMR has helped make Elliot Health System, based in Manches...
Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...
To promote healthy communities, hospitals must lead the way and serve as role models. A recent AH...
Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...
Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...
Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...
Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...
