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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
This AHA webinar engaged participants in a discussion related to global budgets – one of the nine...
On May 7, 2017, I swore an oath to become the 118th chairman of the American Hospital Association...
This weekend kicks off a not-to-be-missed event for hospital and health system leaders: the AHA’s...
Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...
I have been so proud to see America’s hospitals and health systems speak so passionately on behal...
There is a critical need to elevate the discussion around workforce planning and development to e...
Like many hospitals, SBH Health System uses the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. ...
A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...
This joint HPOE and Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital webinar discus...
Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...
Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...
This health system's employee influenza vaccination policy compliance rate was less than 70 perce...
Because the medical center’s lost charge capture related to IV injection and infusions totaled $8...
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
Turnaround time for immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains in the laboratory of a 500 bed tertiary car...
The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...
Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...
This project has decreased cycle time for medication reconciliation at time of admission and for ...
The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...
Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...
The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...
The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...
Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...
The utilization review staff at HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital examines medical records for inpati...
A local urology department partnered with the performance improvement department to identify oppo...
The clinic throughput time was viewed as excessive and lacked standardized best practices. A new ...
Surgery case cancellation rates OSF Center for Health were 10.5 percent over six months. This cre...
Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended ...
Every aspect of a patient’s experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused reso...
A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is ac...
Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...
In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...
Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...
When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...
This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...
State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...
At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...
Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...
In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...
Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...
TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...
Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website highlights quality improvement stories at hundreds...
In early 2011, AHA members, committees, regional policy boards and staff discussed and crafted a ...
This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...
The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...
This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...
The concept of the Triple Aim is widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...
This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center established the Quality Excellence Council at the beg...
Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...
In December 2008, the hospital spotlighted national Hospital Quality Measures performance and fou...
Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...
After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...
The Respiratory Protection Webkit includes a 10-module Respiratory Protection Course and accompan...
The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....
The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...
Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...
Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...
Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...
Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...
HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...
This toolkit from OSHA is availalbe to the public and contains references, educational resources ...
Sylvia Getman, president and CEO of the Aroostook Medical Center and senior vice president of Eas...
Learning, sharing resources and discussing projects on cutting-edge topics in health care transfo...
Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...
The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...
Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...
A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...
The country’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improveme...
This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...