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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...