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AHA Webinars

Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...

May 11th, 2017
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St. Vincent’s Medical Center Achieves Efficiency and Reduces Costs with Performance Analytics

St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

August 30th, 2013
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Walking the Walk: A Progressive Mobility Protocol in a Cardiovascular Surgical Intensive Care Unit Improves Patient Perception and Results in Lower Costs Through Decreased Ventilator Hours and Length of Stay

Early and safe mobility of critically ill patients in a cardiovascular surgical intensive care un...

March 13th, 2013
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The Red Box Strategy: An Innovative Method to Improve Isolation Precaution Compliance and Reduce Costs

The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...

March 12th, 2013
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In-Home Palliative Care Allows More Patients to Die at Home, Leading to Higher Satisfaction and Lower Acute Care Utilization and Costs

Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

November 7th, 2012
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A Collaborative Accountable Care Model In Three Practices Showed Promising Early Results On Costs And Quality Of Care

Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...

November 1st, 2012
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An Experiment Shows That A Well-Designed Report On Costs And Quality Can Help Consumers Choose High-Value Health Care

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

March 1st, 2012
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The Value of an Organized Fracture Program for the Elderly: Improved Outcomes and Reduced Costs

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

February 1st, 2012
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