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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...
State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...
St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...
A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...
Making incremental changes and collaborating with area hospitals and community organizations have...
Nearly 1,500 U.S. hospitals are working to eliminate patient harm and reduce hospital readmission...
Small tests of change can give hospitals momentum and show early progress in improvement projects...
Improving care after discharge translates to decreased readmissions. Marshall Medical Center, a 1...
A “simple” complex plan is reducing readmissions at Wythe County Community Hospital, a 100-bed fa...
Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...
Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...
Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...
One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...
By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...
Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...
"App" and "austerity" were among the 2010 "words of the year" named by a dialect society and dict...
Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...
Poor planning. High costs. These issues helped prompt Saint Joseph-London in London, Ky., to impr...
Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...
