Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

July 31st, 2014
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It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...

July 28th, 2014
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A national leader in health care equity, Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston has developed s...

July 21st, 2014
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Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...

July 11th, 2014
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This updated chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of...

June 17th, 2014
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The May 2014 edition of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved highlights lingui...

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A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

June 4th, 2014
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Crossroad Health Center is a federally qualified health center and level 3 patient-centered medic...

June 1st, 2014
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All practices participating in Better Health Greater Cleveland collect and submit data on patient...

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The Greater Detroit Area Health Council is taking an innovative approach to reducing disparities ...

June 1st, 2014
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There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

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Rooftop gardens are flourishing atop more and more hospitals. On unused roof space at Castle Medi...

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This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...

March 17th, 2014
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Providing world-class quality health care may seem an audacious goal for a small or rural hospita...

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This viewpoint article examines the barriers to improving health outcomes, eliminating disparitie...

February 26th, 2014
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Four generations are working side by side in hospitals and care systems today. Atlantic Health Sy...

January 27th, 2014
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The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides are a suite of tools that include ...

January 16th, 2014
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The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan  Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...

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Founded in 1989, the Metro Community Provider Network is a nonprofit organization in the Denver M...

January 1st, 2014
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Established in 2007, Colorado Total Smiles is a nonprofit located in the Denver Metro area that p...

January 1st, 2014
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Generational differences—one factor of diversity—are changing workforce dynamics. Traditionalists...

January 1st, 2014
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Never underestimate the power of data. Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Hospital focused on collecting and...

December 16th, 2013
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Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...

December 11th, 2013

Womansplace Crisis Center is committed to working toward the elimination of violence against wome...

December 1st, 2013
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After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecede...

November 11th, 2013

Reducing health care disparities is a growing national priority and state hospital associations a...

November 5th, 2013
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Focusing on strategies to improve quality, address disparities and achieve equity will be essenti...

October 22nd, 2013
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This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

September 18th, 2013
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At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...

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Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...

September 9th, 2013
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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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A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

August 19th, 2013
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This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...

July 18th, 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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The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...

July 10th, 2013
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Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...

July 8th, 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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Here's a disheartening statistic from the National Cancer Institute: in the United States, white ...

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Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...

May 20th, 2013
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Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

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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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Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...

May 6th, 2013
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Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicit...

April 25th, 2013
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More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...

April 22nd, 2013
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The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...

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Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

March 31st, 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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The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

March 25th, 2013
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In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...

March 22nd, 2013
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Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

March 18th, 2013
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In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care commi...

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The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...

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Disparities in care were noted for diabetes, cardio vascular disease and cancer screeening for Hm...

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The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...

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The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

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The YWCA of Greater Milwaukee created a diversity training program focused on race and racism, in...

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Although it is accepted that cultural competency training is a vital part of reducing health disp...

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A collaborative effort among Harborview Medical Center, two massage schools, the Southeast Seattl...

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The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...

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Health plans and provider communities share a need for quality information that promotes cultural...

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The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center  provides geriatric education ...

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This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it  4,100 team members thr...

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 Stanford Geriatric Education Center's geriatric training programs for health professionals are o...

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This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...

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L.A. Care Health Plans developed an innovative video designed to inform deaf and hard-of-hearing ...

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In a society as culturally diverse as the United States, especially in New York City,  members of...

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In 2005, the University of Washington School of Medicine was awarded a grant from the National In...

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Interest in cross-cultural communication in health care has increased in recent years as provider...

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Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...

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Although, increasing diversity in the health care workforce and training health care providers to...

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This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

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The use of cross-cultural diversity forum isexamined. The forums use technology and tools to brin...

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According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

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Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

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Clinicians and health care providers incorporate evidence-based clinical interventions to improve...

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