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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...
The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...
One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...
The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...
Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...
A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...
Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...
The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...
In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...
The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...
This how-to guide describes the essentials elements of preventing obstetrical adverse events, inc...
Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...
Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...
Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...
Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...
This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...
Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...
In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...
Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...
Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...
When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...
Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...
Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...
Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...
The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...
The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...
AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...
With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...
ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...
Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...
SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...
Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...
Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services t...
Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...
An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...
This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...
Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...
Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...
There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...
An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat...
Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...
The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...
This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...
The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...
By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...
Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...
Clinical integration is needed to facilitate the coordination of patient care across conditions, ...
On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services released a final regulation for the ne...
Implementing clinical practice guidelines can improve the quality of patient care and positively ...
On the CUSP: Stop BSI and Stop CAUTI aim to eliminate central line associated bloodstream infecti...
The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...
This online education program has been developed by infection control experts from Joint Commissi...
Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...
This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...
The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...
An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...
Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...
An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...
Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...
The Quality Transformation Network is a large and growing group of children's hospitals combining...
This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...
The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...
A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...
Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...
Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...
This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...
University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...
A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...
Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...
America’s hospitals are committed to protecting the health and well-being of all patients, especi...
Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...
This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...
Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...
Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...
Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...
This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...
This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...
Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...
A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...
The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...
This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...
A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...
Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...
Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...
A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...
This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...
A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...