Quality & Patient Safety
On May 25, 2022 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET, AHA hosted a webinar to review key provisions in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ fiscal year 2023 proposed rule for the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS).
Variations in the competency, quality, and adoption of evidence-based medicine among your clinical teams are a core driver of your adverse events and claims. With nurses spending more one-on-one time with patients than any other healthcare worker, this makes the need for their ability to perform at…
Increases in consolidation and alignment between commercial health plans and pharmacy benefit managers have resulted in a series of business practices designed to steer patients to insurer-affiliated pharmacies and away from patients’ longstanding providers to the detriment of patient care.
The Age-Friendly Health Systems initiative is designed to meet the needs of older adults, looking beyond acute events, engaging the whole community, and achieving better health for older adults. View this webinar to learn about the importance and impact of the 4Ms Framework, hear bright spots in…
Health care organizations can and should remove barriers and develop systems to engage physicians in their quality improvement efforts, including team training for patient safety. This webinar shares the most common barriers and helps viewers develop strategies that address both institutional and…
Topics of interest include priorities, benefits and limits of a patient experience survey in this setting.
Health care providers should not use non-invasive prenatal screening tests alone to diagnose genetic abnormalities due to the potential for false results.
This webinar discusses the role telehealth has played in transforming healthcare delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic with emphasis on different sites of care. Each site of care is discussed with special emphasis on how people, processes, regulation, and technology work together to support a…
Incomplete or unclear communication and poor feedback can impact team effectiveness and lead to catastrophic patient events. This webinar covers how to use deconstructive feedback and TeamSTEPPS tools to disassemble communication events and promote dialogue that develops and maintains team synergy…
Robyn Begley, chief nursing officer for the AHA and CEO of the American Organization for Nursing Leadership, today issued a statement in response to a decision Friday in a Tennessee trial that convicted a nurse who made a fatal drug error of criminally negligent homicide.