The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...

December 5th, 2012
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Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...

November 29th, 2012
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The Affordable Care Act and state Medicaid reform efforts present opportunities to reengineer hea...

November 16th, 2012
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Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

November 15th, 2012
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This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

October 30th, 2012
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At the 2012 American Public Health Association annual meeting, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation spo...

October 30th, 2012
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Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

October 30th, 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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America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...

September 6th, 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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PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

August 1st, 2012
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This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

August 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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After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

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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Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

June 1st, 2012
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During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

May 30th, 2012
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This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

May 3rd, 2012
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In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

March 1st, 2012
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This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

March 1st, 2012
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My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...

February 21st, 2012
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Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...

February 1st, 2012
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Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

February 1st, 2012
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In 2005, North Shore University Hospital's president and chief executive officer made a commitmen...

February 1st, 2012
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The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...

February 1st, 2012
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Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...

February 1st, 2012
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Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

January 1st, 2012
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