How Essential Hospitals Build Patient TrustPresenters examined the policies and practices that promote high patient trust at three essential hospitals, and learn how to develop an approach to building institutional trust at your hospital.
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In a May 17 Capitol Hill briefing, leaders from NYC Health + Hospitals, East Alabama Medical Center, and Eskenazi Health shared how disproportionate share hospital funding sustains their hospitals.
view more »Reducing preventable readmissions, which often are related to behavioral health conditions, with appropriate and timely care is of paramount concern to the members of Premier and America’s Essential Hospitals.
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A new Health Affairs article links onsite wraparound services to a reduction in hospitalizations and emergency department visits at association member Eskenazi Health.
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services approved Indiana's request to incorporate work requirements in their Section 1115 Medicaid expansion waiver. This is the second waiver with work requirements approved by CMS.
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More Control — Less Pain. Recovering Function with Chronic PainLearn how Eskenazi Health’s Pain School couples psychological and physical rehabilitation to improve patient outcomes
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This brief summarizes the challenges that food-insecure patients face and the measures hospitals can take at the patient, system, and community levels to help improve food security.
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The second installment in this series, essential hospitals share strategies for overcoming cost, culture, and communication issues.
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Essential hospitals share strategies for overcoming siloes between behavioral health and physical health care.
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Eskenazi's mobile office medical home and cost-efficient use of staff contribute to a 50 percent reduction in depressive symptoms among more than half of patients with high depression scores and a 50 percent reduction in behavioral and psychological symptoms of dementia for about half of patients.
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The Gage Awards Program honors and shares the outstanding work of members of America’s Essential Hospitals. Winners are recognized for successful and creative programs that boost patient care and meet community needs.
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A recent Health Affairs article demonstrates that an Eskenazi Health dementia and depression program is clinically and financially effective.
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AHA resource developed as part of the Community Connections Initiative
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Grants go to 105 organizations that will serve as navigators in states with federally facilitated exchanges
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Eskenazi Health used a multifaceted and interdisciplinary falls prevention strategy to reduce falls by 40 percent from a 2010 baseline to the second quarter of 2013.
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Wishard's violence prevention programming has cut recidivism and created a safer community
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