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A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...
Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...
Homelessness is a hidden but real issue in Chittenden County, VT. University of Vermont Medical C...
Analyzing contributing factors and implementing targeted, sustainable solutions have helped hospi...
While much work has been done in the hospital setting, patient falls continue to be a problem. As...
A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavior...
Since September 2015, the AHA/HRET HEN 2.0 hospitals have been working to reduce hospital-acquire...
Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...
This project addresses the health care system's strategic initiative to ensure interdisciplinary ...
Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...
The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...
The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...
The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...
The hospital identified an opportunity to improve its discharge planning process to allow more ti...
In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...
For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...
Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...
Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...
The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...
Limited provider appointment availability in the clinic was causing delays for patients seeking c...
Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...
This project involves raising awareness and expanding the palliative care program at HSHS St. Joh...
Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...
The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...
“Every staff member counts” and “every patient counts.” With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in...
The AHA's Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative have relea...
A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...
Effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships are critical to building a Culture of H...
The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Base...
An integrated health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avera Health serves patie...
Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gundersen Health System is an integrated tertiary referral center ...
St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...
Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...
Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...
Mercy Medical Center committed to delivering the highest quality care with the greatest efficienc...
As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...
As part of an effort to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognized ...
Many patients who find themselves in a situation where they are experiencing worsening symptoms o...
For the past 30 years, the Healthcare for the Homeless Program has addressed the health needs of ...
The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...
MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...
The new HPOE guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...
Every day, hospitals are successfully meeting challenges and providing quality care in their comm...
Focusing on value-based payment structures has helped Mount Auburn Hospital design care delivery ...
Hospitals and health care systems are striving to achieve the Triple Aim—improving the patient ex...
The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...
Overcoming language barriers with patients improves communication, a critical element of safety a...
Cultural competency is critical to reducing health care disparities and improving access to high-...
This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...
Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...
A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...
Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...
North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...
Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...
As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...
The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...
A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...
To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...
St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...
Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...
Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...
April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
Delivering the right care, at the right time, in the right place. That focus is the strategy for ...
Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...
Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...
This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...
U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...
By focusing on preventive care and health promotion, hospitals are catalyzing change in their com...
Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, Ill., created a total knee and hip joint replacement center of excel...
Most hospitals collect race, ethnicity and language data, but a smaller percentage use the data i...
Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...
Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...
This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...
Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...
Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...
The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...
Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...
Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...
This infographic provides a sample of the findings from the 2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Ben...
The nation’s health care delivery system is in the midst of a transition from a fee-for-service a...
Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...
The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...
Improving patient safety, leading multiple improvement efforts and moving to value-based care: Th...
This updated chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of...
Continuing on the second-curve series, HPOE highlights the Second Curve of Population Health info...
As our nation's population becomes more diverse, health care organizations are continuously prese...
A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...
All practices participating in Better Health Greater Cleveland collect and submit data on patient...
Improving care after discharge translates to decreased readmissions. Marshall Medical Center, a 1...
Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...
This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital ...
This viewpoint article examines the barriers to improving health outcomes, eliminating disparitie...
The statistics are staggering: The number of Americans diagnosed with diabetes has risen from 1.5...
In 2005, Guernsey County in rural Ohio had the state’s second worst late-stage colon cancer rates...
Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...