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The Connecticut Hospital Association (CHA) and the Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) are the 2014 recipients of the Dick Davidson Quality Milestone Award for Allied Association Leadership for their work to improve health care quality, the American Hospital Association (AHA) announced today.
Hospitals and health care systems can support their missions and also many additional benefits by tapping into the power of environmental sustainability. Wentworth-Douglass Hospital, a 178-bed hospital in Dover, N.H., completed a series of sustainability projects that have brought significant…
Sylvia Mathews Burwell is an excellent choice to head the Department of Health and Human Services. Her experience at the Office of Management and Budget in navigating the complexities of the federal budget will be critical to leading a department that touches the lives of almost all Americans.
Since 2010, the academic medical center has been supporting a program to reduce 30-day all cause readmission rates by targeting efforts on a subset of patient populations each year.
A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation for self-management of medical conditions and gaps/concerns acorss the continuum including: communication, medication reconciliation, and variations in knowledge sets of caregivers.
After examining the health care environment, the AHA Board Committee on Performance Improvement released the groundbreaking report, Hospitals and Care Systems of the Future. The report highlights the shift health care providers face when they transform their business and service delivery models…
In this webinar, presenters share Texas Health Dallas' care coordination story and experiences providing population-centered, culturally competent care for Burmese refugees.
Three patient navigators are used to advocate on behalf of women with abnormal breast findings on mammograms. The main goals of the program are to remove barriers to making appointments (e.g. transportation), not knowing the next steps in care, and financial issues. In addition, navigators are…
Using a Community Needs Assessment, Morris Hospital, which serves 18 rural communities, identified the need for a free patient transportation service for health care appointments. The program, developed through a Plan-Do-Study-Act approach, has provided 140,000 rides since its inception. Read the…
The American Hospital Association (AHA) wishes to express serious concerns about an increasing number of ―hospital compliance reviews‖ performed by the Office of Inspector General (OIG) Office of Audit Services in which the OIG has extrapolated audit findings to estimate Medicare overpayments to…