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

December 3rd, 2012
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In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...

November 28th, 2012
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The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

November 27th, 2012
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One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

November 26th, 2012
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The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...

November 20th, 2012
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Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

November 20th, 2012
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Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

November 19th, 2012
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A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

November 19th, 2012
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Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

November 16th, 2012
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The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...

November 13th, 2012
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In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...

November 12th, 2012
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The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

November 9th, 2012
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This how-to guide describes the essentials elements of preventing obstetrical adverse events, inc...

November 9th, 2012
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Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

November 8th, 2012
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Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

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Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

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Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

November 7th, 2012
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This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

November 7th, 2012
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"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

November 5th, 2012
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Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

November 1st, 2012
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Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

November 1st, 2012
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In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...

November 1st, 2012
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Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

November 1st, 2012
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Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

November 1st, 2012
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When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

October 30th, 2012
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Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

October 25th, 2012
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Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...

October 25th, 2012
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

October 22nd, 2012
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The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

October 18th, 2012
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The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

October 16th, 2012
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AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

October 12th, 2012
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With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...

October 12th, 2012
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ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...

October 12th, 2012
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Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

October 12th, 2012
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SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...

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Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

October 11th, 2012
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Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services t...

October 11th, 2012
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Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...

October 10th, 2012
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An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

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This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

October 8th, 2012
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Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

October 2nd, 2012
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Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

October 1st, 2012
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There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

October 1st, 2012
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An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat...

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Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

October 1st, 2012
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The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...

September 28th, 2012
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This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...

September 26th, 2012
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The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

September 26th, 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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Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

September 20th, 2012
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Clinical integration is needed to facilitate the coordination of patient care across conditions, ...

September 12th, 2012
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On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

September 12th, 2012
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Implementing clinical practice guidelines can improve the quality of patient care and positively ...

September 12th, 2012
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On the CUSP: Stop BSI and Stop CAUTI aim to eliminate central line associated bloodstream infecti...

September 12th, 2012
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The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...

September 12th, 2012
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This online education program has been developed by infection control experts from Joint Commissi...

September 12th, 2012
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Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...

September 1st, 2012
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This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...

September 1st, 2012
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The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...

August 30th, 2012
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An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

August 27th, 2012
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Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

August 20th, 2012
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An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

August 20th, 2012
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Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...

August 1st, 2012
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The Quality Transformation Network is a large and growing group of children's hospitals combining...

August 1st, 2012
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This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...

August 1st, 2012
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The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

August 1st, 2012
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A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

August 1st, 2012
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Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

August 1st, 2012
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Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

August 1st, 2012
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This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

August 1st, 2012
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University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...

July 19th, 2012
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A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

July 19th, 2012
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Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

July 1st, 2012
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America’s hospitals are committed to protecting the health and well-being of all patients, especi...

June 17th, 2012
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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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This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

June 1st, 2012
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Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...

June 1st, 2012
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The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

June 1st, 2012
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Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

June 1st, 2012
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Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

June 1st, 2012
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This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

June 1st, 2012
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This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

June 1st, 2012
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Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

June 1st, 2012
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A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

June 1st, 2012
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The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...

June 1st, 2012
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Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

June 1st, 2012
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After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

June 1st, 2012
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Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

June 1st, 2012
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This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

June 1st, 2012
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A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...

June 1st, 2012
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Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

June 1st, 2012
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Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

June 1st, 2012
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A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

June 1st, 2012
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Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

June 1st, 2012
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Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

June 1st, 2012
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A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

June 1st, 2012
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This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

June 1st, 2012
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Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

June 1st, 2012
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Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

June 1st, 2012
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A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

June 1st, 2012
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