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    AHA Webinars

    Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...

    May 11th, 2017
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    Lean Six Sigma Reduces Wait Time on Day of Discharge by 28 Percent in a Critical Access Hospital

    Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

    October 6th, 2015
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    Enhancing Statewide Hospital Discharge Databases: Improving Race, Ethnicity and Clinical Data

      For more than two decades, health services researchers have been using statewide hospital disc...

    October 2nd, 2015
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    Implementation of Diagnosis-specific Discharge Instructions to Reduce Global Office Visits

    The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...

    September 14th, 2015
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    Improving Performance Using Evidence-Based Principles; Improving Discharge to Prevent Hospital Readmission of Heart Failure Patients

    The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

    May 27th, 2015
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