Initiatives/Campaigns
American Hospital Association advocacy initiatives and campaigns.
As the U.S. population ages and the number of Americans impacted by obesity and diabetes increases, high blood pressure control is more important than ever. One in three (68 million) U.S. adults has high blood pressure and less than half of patients have it adequately controlled. With no serious…
The AHA is dedicated to highlighting the good work that America's hospitals are doing to care and strengthen communities. This initiative highlights different hospitals. America's hospitals are open day and night, 365 days a year, to care for everyone who walks through our doors. The…
The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps dialysis centers minimize peritonitis and exit site infections in pediatric peritoneal dialysis patients. This program allows participating centers to meet Medicare's Quality Assessment and…
This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology unit. Participants in this initiative learn how to reliably implement 'best practice' bundles to reduce CLABSI, collect monthly data, and attend two workshops each year while receiving transparent…
The Quality Transformation Network is a large and growing group of children's hospitals combining forces to improve care and outcomes for high impact clinical issues.Participating hospitals are achieving improvements at lower cost, more efficiently and faster than any single hospital can…
America's hospitals are committed to protecting the health and well-being of all patients, especially newborns. Research demonstrates that early-term, non-medically necessary deliveries result in higher neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admissions and increased health complications for babies. To…
Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January 31, 2011, to the Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority involving patients taking their own medications while in a hospital. Categorization of the reports by harm score shows that 77.7% of the events…
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partnered in 2008 to establish a falls reporting initiative to assist hospitals in their falls prevention efforts. Following the development of standardized definitions for falls and falls with harm, the…
An annual list of the top 100 hospitals in the United States.
An initial list of topics was narrowed down based on the highest potential for improvement, representing a broad range of tests and the availability of strong guidelines. Members then researched specific recommendations and evidentiary statements based on their expertise.