AHA/HRET Guides
The American Hospital Association (AHA) shares guides created by its Health Research and Education Trust (HRET).
This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps hospitals and care systems achieve and sustain reductions in CAUTI infection rates.
This resource gives hospital and health system leaders concrete, practical steps grounded on evidence-based research to improve patient and family engagement in their organizations by:
The nation's health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-base business model. The pace of the transition varies by market, but hospitals, care systems and other providers must be proactive.
The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement strategies that will assist in delivering care that is safe, timely, equitable, effective, efficient and patient-centered. The collection features each report from the past year's HPOE guides.
The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care across 10 areas of patient harm through the implementation and dissemination of best practices in clinical quality. This guide includes checklists for 10 areas (click on each area for further HPOE…
This guide explores the concept of cultural competency, builds the case for the enhancement of cultural competency in health care, and provides quick answers. It answers the questions of what is cultural competence in healthcare and what is culturally competent care, and offers seven…
To become an effective population health manager, a hospital must create effective partnerships.
'Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care' expands on four strategies originally identified in the report, 'Hospitals and Care Systems of the Future.' These strategies were identified as major priorities for hospitals a
In 2010, as an extension of the American Hospital Association's (AHA) Health For Life: Better Health.
In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve outcomes and reduce health care costs.The committee developed this report advocating hospitals to become more “activist” in their orientation and move “upstream”—that is