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How do you successfully integrate behavioral health and primary care? A recent HPOE webinar highlighted the work of St. Charles Health System in Bend, Oregon, to coordinate care and help develop a care transformation plan in the state. The plan's goal is to achieve the Triple Aim of improved…
Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for large health care systems. Each year Vidant Health, a regional health system serving eastern North Carolina, logs more than 24,000 distinct patient encounters with a primary language other than English…
The Backyard Initiative at Allina Health, based in Minnesota, is truly taking care beyond hospital walls. BYI focuses on seven neighborhoods that surround Allina's Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Phillips Eye Institute, and corporate headquarters and are home to many residents with poor health…
Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds
Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop respiratory distress requiring mechanical ventilation. These children are more likely to have lifelong problems with asthma and other respiratory ailments. In central Illinois, there has been an…
The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood glucose management for adult hyperglycemic patients during acute inpatient hospitalization. The goals are to develop improvement strategies that will manage blood glucoses to prevent hypoglycemia (…
Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health services organization that serves more than 2.6 million residents in 44 counties in both central and northeastern Pennsylvania. The Problem
Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds
Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patient- and family-centered care transformation model in 2008.
Helen DeVos Children's HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children's Hospital examined its patient rounding process and decided it needed to become more family-centered.