America’s Essential Hospitals Welcomes New Board Leadership
July 1, 2021 ||New leaders for America’s Essential Hospitals and its research, education, and dissemination arm, Essential Hospitals Institute, today began their roles.
view more »New leaders for America’s Essential Hospitals and its research, education, and dissemination arm, Essential Hospitals Institute, today began their roles.
view more »America’s Essential Hospitals, whose more than 300 members care for low-income and other marginalized people, today honored 13 member hospitals for outstanding work to improve health care quality and population health and to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic.
view more »Explore how essential hospitals are leveraging community-integrated strategies to meet amplified inpatient and outpatient mental and behavioral health needs during the COVID-19 pandemic.
view more »Discover how essential hospitals are providing housing as health care to patients and their local communities to reduce housing instability and improve health outcomes.
view more »The 2018 Culture of Health Prize will honor communities for innovative partnerships and collective initiatives to improve population health.
view more »Multidisciplinary teams at Truman Medical Centers developed two care transitions assessments and reduced hospital admissions, ED visits, costs.
view more »Top chefs put healthful spin on fast food as essential hospitals work to reduce food deserts in their communities
view more »Truman Medical Centers improved medication safety by changing their stocking practices, implementing evidence-based order sets, and using a patient-centered education strategy.
view more »Using a step-by-step approach, Truman Medical Centers implemented a variety of interventions across 2012 that decreased the prevalence of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers by 78 percent.
view more »A Truman Medical Centers study examines clinical decision support systems’ impact on venous thromboembolism prevention.
view more »Truman Medical Centers reduced central line-associated blood stream infections in its intensive care units through an evidence-based strategy.
view more »Participants learned how to identify race, ethnicity, and language disparities in health care
view more »Surgical site infection coding challenges and strategies to prevent colorectal SSIs
view more »Truman Medical Centers employed a strategy that integrated diabetes care across all inpatient and outpatient departments, designated physician champions, and used data to identify high-risk patients.
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