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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...
The move from volume- to value-based care has profound implications for those who design, build a...
Medicine involves decisions. But for Medicare patients with conditions for which surgery is an op...
Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...
Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...
Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...
At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...
Kaiser Permanente developed a home-based model of palliative care that uses an interdisciplinary ...
Bernard J. Tyson, a Kaiser Permanente employee and leader for 28 years and its chief operating of...
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...
Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...
In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...
Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...
This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...
AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...
One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...
In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWo...
At-large members are individuals in health care with an interest in the activities of the AHA and...
The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...
Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...
Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...
Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...
The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...
Clinical integration is needed to facilitate the coordination of patient care across conditions, ...
How to solve the problem? Many practices have found the answer in the creation of high-functionin...
America's health care system has become too complex and costly to continue business as usual, say...
An article on the SF Gate website profiles the new wave of medical school graduates, millennial a...
Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...
Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...
Between March and June 2012, Jackson Healthcare conducted a series of online physician surveys th...
“End of life care,” “serious illness” or “advanced illness” are some of the terms used to categor...
Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...
A collection of 10 short essays by the industry luminaries who have received HRET's TRUST Award s...
Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...
Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...
Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...
Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...
As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...
This list features five recommendations for family medicine. The goal is to identify items: commo...
This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...
The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...
The group collaboratively identified and narrowed down screening or diagnostic tests commonly use...
An initial list of topics was narrowed down based on the highest potential for improvement, repre...
This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...
This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...
This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...
This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...
This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...
The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...
South Nassau Communities Hospital initiated the "Knot So Fast" project to promote a safe and effi...
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...
For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...
Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...
In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...
Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...
St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...
The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...
AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...
The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a mu...
In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose ...
Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...
Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...
AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...
Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...
Commonwealth Care Alliance Boston, MA The Problem Commonwealth Care Alliance, which functions bo...
Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...
This report provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...