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Chairperson's File
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Quality Care for Veterans

After more than a decade of war, many U.S. military service members have experienced an unprecedented number of combat deployments. Representing about 25 percent of the U.S.
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Dream Partnerships in Health Care

If you build a community of care, people will come. It happened when Middlesex Hospital, in Middletown, Conn., began meeting with community partners.
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Targeted Education Reduces Readmissions

A “simple” complex plan is reducing readmissions at Wythe County Community Hospital, a 100-bed facility in Wytheville, Va.
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Business Case for Equitable Care

The path to eliminating disparities in health care has a few roadblocks: limited resources and access to capital, competing regulatory issues and challenges, and resistance to change.
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Spreading Quality Improvement

Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmissions: At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro
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Addressing Health Literacy at the Bedside

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A Multifactorial Falls Program to Reduce Injury from Falls

Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a national focus.
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Early Identification and Treatment of Sepsis through Initiation of Response Team in the Emergency Department (ED CODE SEPSIS)

According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Statistics National Hospital Discharge Survey, patients hospitalized for septicemia or sepsis had a 17 pe
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Resident-Driven Multidisciplinary Quality Improvement Initiative for Inpatient Management and Transition of COPD Patients

At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illinois Health and Hospital Association revealed that chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) rates
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Increase Penetration of Appropriate Palliative Care Consultation in a Health System

This project addresses the health care system's strategic initiative to ensure interdisciplinary palliative care teams deliver sustainable, high-quality services within their health ministries