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The CDC features a new website featuring prevention training, tools and tips for prevention practitioners. As every community health improvement professionals now, violence is a population health issue and needs to be address in order to successfully achieve the Triple Aim. It spells out each…
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…
There are opportunities around the country for dramatic innovation in the way health systems transform community well-being. Health care leaders are positioned to be regional catalysts of this change. You can benefit from tools that help you see a wider set of pathways for innovation –…
The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and national average for all three quality indicators (AMI, CHF and community-acquired pneumonia). In January 2011, the hospital started a new CQI+ team to implement the Illinois Hospital Association Project Re…
May 31 - June 6, 2015, is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement established this week to raise awareness and increase understanding of how community health strategies complement, though they remain distinct from, individual medical care. Visit the ACHI…
To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health care costs, a multifaceted approach to reducing the number of potentially avoidable hospital readmissions was developed for the heart failure population. This approach included: a focus on in-hospital…
AHA comments on the UPS Conventions revised proposed general chapter <800> Hazardous Drugs Handling in Healthcare Setting.
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management works with health services organizations and educators to expand leadership opportunities for minorities in health services management.