In a blog post, a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention official notes that providers should consider health equity during emergency preparedness, response, and recovery to ensure disparities are not inadvertently created or exacerbated.
view more »The resources include a 12-step guide for reducing readmissions and a bilingual guide to aid patients and caregivers following discharge from the hospital.
view more »Toolkit Aims to Help Hospitals Boost Immunizations
Aug 7, 2018 ||The toolkit, released as part of National Immunization Awareness Month, includes sample news releases and articles, social media content, and media outreach tools.
view more »Member Hospital Helps New Orleans Stop the Bleed
Jul 20, 2018 ||University Medical Center New Orleans mobilizes volunteers to teach community members how to stop bleeding in medical emergencies.
view more »Predicting High-Need Patients Using Readily Available Data
Apr 18, 2018 ||Researchers at New York University School of Medicine and NYC Health + Hospitals outline a lower-cost method that providers serving vulnerable populations could use to better identify and manage care for their highest needs patients.
view more »Using EHRs to Cut Unplanned Readmissions in Half
Oct 18, 2017 ||Staff at University of Missouri Health Care designed an intervention using health information technology that reduced unplanned heart failure readmissions by nearly half after only nine months.
view more »Toolkit Aims To Help Hospitals Raise Opioid Awareness
Jul 25, 2017 ||The toolkit — released by The MetroHealth System in Cleveland and other partners — outlines steps to help raise awareness of the opioid epidemic.
view more »Online Resources Promote Payment, Care Delivery Reform
May 15, 2017 ||An initiative aims to convene and support an essential providers network to promote payment and delivery reform amid uncertainty surrounding health policy.
view more »Toolkit Tackles Health Issues that Lead to School Absenteeism
Jul 13, 2016 ||A Healthy Schools Campaign toolkit aims to help school districts combat health issues that distract students from education or cause chronic absenteeism.
view more »Banner Health is expanding its telehealth program to new areas of its hospitals, such as medical/surgical and stepdown units, and even into patients’ homes.
view more »A Prescription for Better Nutrition
Feb 17, 2016 ||Cook County Health & Hospital System has begun screening pediatric patients for food insecurity and offering them and their families assistance.
view more »Dirty Endoscopes Ranks First on 2016 Health Hazards List
Nov 13, 2015 ||New report from ECRI Institute also lists failure to respond to clinical alarms, unsafe injection practices, and insufficient training among top hazards.
view more »New Tool Assesses Public Health Program Sustainability
Sep 25, 2015 ||The assessment helps public health programs understand and build capacity for sustainability over time. It consists of 40 questions and takes approximately 10 to 15 minutes for each individual to complete.
view more »Multidisciplinary teams at Truman Medical Centers developed two care transitions assessments and reduced hospital admissions, ED visits, costs.
view more »Hospital Leadership Assessment Tool Impacts Clinical Results
Jul 22, 2015 ||The HLQAT helps hospitals figure out how aligned senior executives and clinical managers are on factors correlated with high quality care.
view more »Process Improvement Steps to Slash Patient Fall Rate
Jun 22, 2015 ||Process improvement methodology led to a 40 percent reduction in patient falls at Broward Health Imperial Point after just one year.
view more »The CDC has added a tool to the NHSN that will rank hospital facilities and units by HAI rate so staff can see areas most in need of help.
view more »SWARMing to Combat Adverse Events, Improve Patient Care
Dec 17, 2014 ||UK Healthcare adopted a centralized approach to patient safety that promotes responsibility and commitment to continuous improvement.
view more »The second installment in this series, essential hospitals share strategies for overcoming cost, culture, and communication issues.
view more »How to Integrate Behavioral Health with Primary Care
Nov 4, 2014 ||Essential hospitals share strategies for overcoming siloes between behavioral health and physical health care.
view more »A Blueprint for Patient Advisory Boards
Oct 21, 2014 ||Drawing on lessons from its Family Health Center, San Francisco General Hospital recommends targeted recruitment, supportive staff liaisons, regular meetings, incentives, and recognition to ensure success when creating patient advisory boards.
view more »Staff at UMass Memorial Health Care are using idea boards to generate ideas that improve care and cut costs at system hospitals.
view more »Low-Tech Tool Helps Reduce Patient Falls
Jun 6, 2014 ||The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center developed a simple, replicable tool to help prevent fall injuries.
view more »Easily Engage Leadership to Create Accountability and Decrease Hospital-Acquired Infections
May 28, 2014 ||To gain control of an HAC that had plagued Jackson Health System for nearly two decades, the hospital began sending weekly emails to hospital leaders regarding the state of the HAC and attempted interventions. As aresult, the number of patients acquiring the HAC drastically dropped.
view more »Reduce Infections, Save Money with Hand Hygiene
Apr 30, 2014 ||MetroHealth's team-based Wash-In, Wash-Out program boosts hand hygiene compliance among staff and reduces hospital-acquired infections.
view more »Community-Focused Steps to Boosting Nutrition, Wellness
Mar 10, 2014 ||Nutrition deficiency contributes to many serious health conditions, such as heart disease, stroke, hypertension, diabetes, and certain cancers. Studies also show a correlation to increasingly high health care costs and reduced productivity and chronic absence from work. Learn a phased approach to addressing these issues, with examples from several essential hospitals.
view more »How to Combat Alarm Fatigue
Feb 25, 2014 ||A Boston Medical Center pilot program successfully reduced audible alarms and improved patient safety across six weeks, leading the hospital to implement the strategy on all inpatient medical/surgical units.
view more »Resident Program in Quality Becomes ‘Institutional Priority’
Dec 2, 2013 ||UNM School of Medicine develops full-year seminar on patient safety and health care quality
view more »Targeted Testing, Follow-Up Improve Life With HIV
Sep 30, 2013 ||Denver Health's multistep program helps ensure HIV-infected people remain on the care continuum
view more »How to Recruit Patients as Partners
Sep 23, 2013 ||Patient feedback helped Contra Costa make large-scale quality improvements
view more »Breathmobiles Control Asthma at School, Keep Students Healthy
Sep 23, 2013 ||Seventy-five percent of children in Arrowhead's program have controlled symptoms by the third follow-up visit
view more »The campaign aims to boost employee health and reduce elevator wait times
view more »Lee Memorial's wellness initiatives target employees and community business leaders
view more »The Wraparound Project Drastically Reduces Re-Injury Rates
Mar 25, 2013 ||SFGH's program targets victims of interpersonal/youth violence who are aged 10 to 30
view more »BMC aims to equip victims of violence with the skills they need to avoid future high-risk situations
view more »By introducing a new culture of maternity care, Stony Brook University Hospital was able to increase its breastfeeding rates and change delivery room behavior, and has been chosen as one of 90 hospitals nationwide to participate in Best Fed Beginnings, a national effort to increase breastfeeding rates.
view more »‘Latch On NYC:’ HHC boosts breastfeeding with four steps
Dec 2, 2012 ||In 2007, HHC took significant steps to increase breastfeeding by prohibiting distribution of formula samples. However, the system took its commitment one step further when it joined the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Latch On NYC initiative, which asks maternity hospitals to voluntarily adopt four specific breastfeeding practices.
view more »In less than one year, the new strategies helped Maricopa achieve a zero EED rate
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