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Transforming Safety Net Clinics into Medical Homes

Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported demonstration project designed to help clinics that serve low-income patients become medical homes.
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Managing change

The move from volume- to value-based care has profound implications for those who design, build and maintain health care facilities.
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The Community Guide

The Community Guide is a resource for evidence-based task force recommendations and findings about what works to improve public health.
Chairperson's File
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Preventing Patient Falls: Essentia Health

43,750: That's the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates would be prevented over three years if hospitals cut preventable fall injuries by 50% in 2013.
Chairperson's File
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Putting Quality and Patients First

During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United States delivered safe, effective, equitable and high-quality care and put patients first.
Case Studies
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Seven Years of Zero Central-Line Associated Bloodstream Infections

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention if they mandate a conventional central-line bundle.
Chairperson's File
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Quality Care for Refugees

Year after year, America's hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs.
Chairperson's File
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Diabeticos Saludables

Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or doctors because you did not speak their language and could not read your own language.
Chairperson's File
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Preventing Infections in Newborns

Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death.
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Transforming a Culture for Safety and Quality

Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fellowship facilitor Shawn Foster, this article describes how past fellows are using the tools they le