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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patien...
During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...
The Community Guide is a resource for evidence-based task force recommendations and findings abou...
43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...
The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
As the U.S. population ages and the number of Americans impacted by obesity and diabetes increase...
The move from volume- to value-based care has profound implications for those who design, build a...
This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...
Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...
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...
A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...
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...
Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...
Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...
Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...
Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...
The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...
Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...
For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak c...
Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...
The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...
While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...
Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...
At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...
The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...
A monograph from the Association of American Medical Colleges, in partnership with the Institute ...
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 ...
Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...
As the patient-centered medical home model gains momentum, providers must strike a balance betwee...
Bernard J. Tyson, a Kaiser Permanente employee and leader for 28 years and its chief operating of...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
The mobile app from HPOE will ensure you receive up-to-date alerts when new HPOE guides are relea...
For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...
The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...
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...
Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...
In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...
Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...
Medicaid is the nation's health coverage program for the low-income population, covering , more t...
For the last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...
Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...
Cigna’s Collaborative Accountable Care initiative provides financial incentives to physician grou...
Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...
The implementation of accountable care organizations, a new health care payment and delivery mode...
This cross-site comparison of the early experience of four provider organizations participating i...
Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...
HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...
This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...
The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...
At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...
When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...
Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...
AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...
One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...
Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...
It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...
Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...
In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWo...
Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...
Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...
Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...
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...
A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...
AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...
AHVRP, a professional membership group of the AHA, is the premier professional membership societ...
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...
At-large members are individuals in health care with an interest in the activities of the AHA and...
SHCA is a not-for-profit health care organization dedicated to serving those who advocate in the ...
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...
The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...
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...
Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...
Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...
An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...
Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...
This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...