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Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award—the only health care organization among this year's winners. Four hospitals are part of CAMC, which is the largest nonprofit hospital system in West Virginia, as well as the third…
Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three examples:
Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condition that has a 28% to 50% mortality rate and is quite costly to treat. Kennedy Health, an integrated health delivery system in New Jersey, has developed a systemwide approach to improve sepsis care and…
Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system with hospital-centered campuses in Cherry Hill, Stratford and Washington Township, N.J. With more than 4,000 employees and nearly 1,000 medical staff members, Kennedy health offers inpatient and…
In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health systems are focusing on supplier diversity. In 2014, CHRISTUS Health, a Catholic, not-for-profit health system with services in six U.S. states, Mexico and Chile, created a Diversity Supplier Council.…
Sinai Health System, Chicago, “Helping Adults Breathe and Thrive: A Healthy Homes Approach to Improving Respiratory Health of Adults with Asthma.” In one year, the program reduced asthma-related emergency department visits by 66 PERCENT, hospitalizations by 57 percent and participants' daytime…
In order to develop a durable systemic change, one Keene, N.H., program is making the healthy choice the easy choice. Turn a New Leaf, part of Healthy Monadnock 2020 and in cooperation with Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth Hitchcock-Keene, provides organizations with the tools, technical…
Apps and iPads are tools of choice for improving the health of Pennsylvania schoolchildren. Lehigh Valley Health Network, in Allentown, Penn., collaborated with the Allentown and Bethlehem school districts, a local business coalition and three other health organizations—all part of the…
This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to help they achieve the Triple Aim of health care. These hosptials ensure their application of HIT is driving value, connecting patients and physicians and even moving outside of the hospital…
Addressing the complex needs of older patients and their caregivers is the focus of the Bridge Model. Developed by Rush University of Medical Center's Health and Aging Department and several community partners in Chicago, this model of transitional care emphasizes care continuity and…