This second report in this series expands and explains all three strategies and focuses on patien...

December 18th, 2012
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During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

December 17th, 2012
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The Community Guide is a resource for evidence-based task force recommendations and findings abou...

December 11th, 2012
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43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

December 10th, 2012
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The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify ...

December 5th, 2012
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What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

December 3rd, 2012
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In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

December 3rd, 2012
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What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

December 3rd, 2012
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As the U.S. population ages and the number of Americans impacted by obesity and diabetes increase...

December 1st, 2012
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The move from volume- to value-based care has profound implications for those who design, build a...

December 1st, 2012
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This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way th...

December 1st, 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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In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...

November 28th, 2012
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The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

November 27th, 2012
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One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

November 26th, 2012
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A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

November 26th, 2012
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The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...

November 20th, 2012
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Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

November 20th, 2012
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Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

November 19th, 2012
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A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

November 19th, 2012
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Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

November 19th, 2012
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Among California's African American, Native American, Latino and Hmong populations, a diagnosis o...

November 16th, 2012
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Patient-reported experiences of care are an important focus in health disparities research. This ...

November 16th, 2012
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Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

November 16th, 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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 For baby boomers, the peak interest in health issues comes at about age 51, with a second peak c...

November 15th, 2012
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Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

November 15th, 2012
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The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...

November 13th, 2012
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While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

November 13th, 2012
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Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

November 13th, 2012
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Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

November 12th, 2012
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In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...

November 12th, 2012
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At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

November 12th, 2012
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The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

November 9th, 2012
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A monograph from the Association of American Medical Colleges, in partnership with the Institute ...

November 9th, 2012
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This how-to guide describes the essentials elements of preventing obstetrical adverse events, inc...

November 9th, 2012
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Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

November 8th, 2012
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Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

November 8th, 2012
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Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

November 8th, 2012
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Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

November 7th, 2012
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This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

November 7th, 2012
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Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...

November 7th, 2012
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As the patient-centered medical home model gains momentum, providers must strike a balance betwee...

November 7th, 2012
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Bernard J. Tyson, a Kaiser Permanente employee and leader for 28 years and its chief operating of...

November 6th, 2012
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"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

November 5th, 2012
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Efforts to improve U.S. health care must include payment reforms that encourage greater efficienc...

November 5th, 2012
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"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

November 5th, 2012
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The mobile app from HPOE will ensure you receive up-to-date alerts when new HPOE guides are relea...

November 2nd, 2012
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For the last century, the major causes of disease and death among Americans have changed, shiftin...

November 2nd, 2012
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