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Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital is implementing huddles and other strategies to reduce falls among inpatients. Unit staff determined that a huddle called immediately after a patient falls is crucial for learning and helping to…
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 (…
Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportunities for transformation and innovation in the U.S. health care system. AHA's intensive interactive Health Care Transformation Fellowship provides senior health care leaders with the implementation…
The AHA and eight state hospital associations yesterday filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to review a decision by a three-judge panel of the court, which reversed an injunction to prevent a proposed 10% Medicaid payment cut to hospitals and other…
Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fellowship facilitor Shawn Foster, this article describes how past fellows are using the tools they learned during the year-long education program to improve patient safety in their facilities.
Statement on the Renomination of Marilyn Tavenner, As Administrator of The Centers for Medicare &...
From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and families to become involved in their care. A new report from the AHA Committee on Research “Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework for Healthy Individuals and Communities” presents a…
The AHA's framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and families and contemplates the role of hospitals and health care systems in improving the overall health of the population and communities they are serving. Within this context, in 2012 the AHA Board…