A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...

January 9th, 2017
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Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...

October 26th, 2016
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Homelessness is a hidden but real issue in Chittenden County, VT. University of Vermont Medical C...

October 17th, 2016
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Analyzing contributing factors and implementing targeted, sustainable solutions have helped hospi...

October 10th, 2016
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While much work has been done in the hospital setting, patient falls continue to be a problem. As...

October 4th, 2016
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A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavior...

October 3rd, 2016
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Since September 2015, the AHA/HRET HEN 2.0 hospitals have been working to reduce hospital-acquire...

September 19th, 2016
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Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...

September 16th, 2016
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This project addresses the health care system's strategic initiative to ensure interdisciplinary ...

September 16th, 2016
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Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

September 16th, 2016
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The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

September 16th, 2016
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The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...

September 16th, 2016
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The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...

September 16th, 2016
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The hospital identified an opportunity to improve its discharge planning process to allow more ti...

September 16th, 2016
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In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...

September 16th, 2016
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For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...

September 16th, 2016
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Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...

September 16th, 2016
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Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...

September 16th, 2016
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The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...

September 16th, 2016
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Limited provider appointment availability in the clinic was causing delays for patients seeking c...

September 16th, 2016
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Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...

September 16th, 2016
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This project involves raising awareness and expanding the palliative care program at HSHS St. Joh...

September 16th, 2016
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Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

September 16th, 2016
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The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...

September 16th, 2016
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“Every staff member counts” and “every patient counts.” With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in...

August 22nd, 2016
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The AHA's Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative have relea...

August 16th, 2016
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A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...

August 15th, 2016
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Effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships are critical to building a Culture of H...

August 4th, 2016
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The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Base...

June 16th, 2016
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An integrated health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avera Health serves patie...

April 22nd, 2016
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Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gundersen Health System is an integrated tertiary referral center ...

April 22nd, 2016
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St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

March 7th, 2016
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Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...

February 29th, 2016
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Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

February 29th, 2016
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Mercy Medical Center committed to delivering the highest quality care with the greatest efficienc...

February 29th, 2016
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As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...

February 29th, 2016
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As part of an effort to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognized ...

February 29th, 2016
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Many patients who find themselves in a situation where they are experiencing worsening symptoms o...

February 29th, 2016
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For the past 30 years, the Healthcare for the Homeless Program has addressed the health needs of ...

February 29th, 2016
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The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...

February 29th, 2016
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MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...

February 29th, 2016
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The new HPOE  guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...

February 29th, 2016
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Every day, hospitals are successfully meeting challenges and providing quality care in their comm...

February 8th, 2016
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Focusing on value-based payment structures has helped Mount Auburn Hospital design care delivery ...

February 1st, 2016
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Hospitals and health care systems are striving to achieve the Triple Aim—improving the patient ex...

January 26th, 2016
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The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...

January 4th, 2016
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Overcoming language barriers with patients improves communication, a critical element of safety a...

November 9th, 2015
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Cultural competency is critical to reducing health care disparities and improving access to high-...

November 4th, 2015
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This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

October 14th, 2015
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Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

October 12th, 2015
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A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

October 5th, 2015
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Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

September 15th, 2015
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North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...

September 14th, 2015

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

September 9th, 2015

As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...

August 20th, 2015
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The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

June 16th, 2015
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The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...

June 16th, 2015
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The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

June 9th, 2015
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A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

June 8th, 2015
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The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

June 8th, 2015
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The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

June 3rd, 2015
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To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

June 2nd, 2015
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St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...

May 28th, 2015
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Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

April 15th, 2015
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 Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...

March 31st, 2015
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April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...

March 30th, 2015
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An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

March 27th, 2015
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Delivering the right care, at the right time, in the right place. That focus is the strategy for ...

March 23rd, 2015

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

March 11th, 2015
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Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...

February 5th, 2015
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This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

January 29th, 2015
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U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...

January 28th, 2015
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By focusing on preventive care and health promotion, hospitals are catalyzing change in their com...

January 26th, 2015
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Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, Ill., created a total knee and hip joint replacement center of excel...

January 5th, 2015
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Most hospitals collect race, ethnicity and language data, but a smaller percentage use the data i...

December 17th, 2014
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Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

December 15th, 2014
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Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...

December 8th, 2014
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This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...

December 4th, 2014
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Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...

November 17th, 2014
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Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

October 16th, 2014
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The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...

October 14th, 2014
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Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...

October 10th, 2014
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Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...

October 10th, 2014
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This infographic provides a sample of the findings from the 2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Ben...

September 25th, 2014
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The nation’s health care delivery system is in the midst of a transition from a fee-for-service a...

August 14th, 2014
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Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

July 31st, 2014
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The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

July 30th, 2014
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Improving patient safety, leading multiple improvement efforts and moving to value-based care: Th...

July 7th, 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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Continuing on the second-curve series, HPOE highlights the Second Curve of Population Health info...

June 4th, 2014
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As our nation's population becomes more diverse, health care organizations are continuously prese...

June 4th, 2014
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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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All practices participating in Better Health Greater Cleveland collect and submit data on patient...

June 1st, 2014
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Improving care after discharge translates to decreased readmissions. Marshall Medical Center, a 1...

May 19th, 2014
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Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...

May 13th, 2014
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This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital ...

April 9th, 2014
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This viewpoint article examines the barriers to improving health outcomes, eliminating disparitie...

February 26th, 2014
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The statistics are staggering: The number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes has risen from 1.5...

February 24th, 2014

In 2005, Guernsey County in rural Ohio had the state’s second worst late-stage colon cancer rates...

January 13th, 2014
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Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...

December 11th, 2013