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The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health System. In 2011, the Detroit health care system revised its process for collecting race, ethnicity and language preference (REAL) data from patients. Now HFHS has become an advocate for collecting and…
A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care systems and the community and successfully reducing hypertension for many residents. The University of Rochester Medical Center and Rochester Regional Health are partners in the Blood Pressure Advocate…
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology coordinates nationwide efforts that support the use of certified health IT and promote the adoption of national standards and the interoperable exchange of health information. Through the recent efforts of federal programs…
This series focuses on the IHI's main topic areas of:
Improvement Capability
Person- and Family-centered Care
Patient Safety
Quality, Cost and Value
Triple Aim for Populations
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Working with community organizations, including competitors, Palmetto Health is improving the health of its patient population. The 1,138-bed, nonprofit health care system is located in Columbia, South Carolina, a state with a relatively large number of uninsured residents at higher risk of…
Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community and address residents' health needs. The initiatives are guided by Healthy People 2020 objectives: provide access to quality health care services; create and maintain educational programs; and design and…
The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physicians and hospital leaders a set of guiding principles for integration. Those six principles are:
Physician and hospital leaders with similar values and expectations aligned financial and non-financial…
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for central line blood stream infection prevention, the hospital reduced its critical care central line blood stream infection rate from 14.6 per 1,000 device days in 2004 to zero for the past 57 months. A…