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Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmissions: At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are leading successful patient safety and quality…
Results from an Association for Community Health Improvement and American Hospital Association Survey
The path to eliminating disparities in health care has a few roadblocks: limited resources and access to capital, competing regulatory issues and challenges, and resistance to change. But eliminating disparities improves quality of care, efficiency and patient satisfaction, and reduces costs.
Womansplace Crisis Center is committed to working toward the elimination of violence against women, children and men through direct services, education and social activism. The center provides services to survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in English, Spanish, Cape Verdean Creole,…
A “simple” complex plan is reducing readmissions at Wythe County Community Hospital, a 100-bed facility in Wytheville, Va. Care teams reviewed data to determine which patients kept returning to WCCH within 30 days of discharge—and frequently visiting the ED—and developed the…