Essential hospitals have adopted innovative wellness and workforce development solutions to overcome burnout, labor shortages, and other challenges.
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America’s Essential Hospitals recognized four member hospitals for outstanding work to improve health care quality and population health.
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Excellence and Innovation in Care: The 2023 Gage Awards
June 15, 2023 ||This guide documents the exceptional work by essential hospitals to improve the health and well-being of the people and communities they serve.
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Explore how NYC Health + Hospitals responds to two-generational needs by optimizing electronic medical records, billing systems, staffing, risk tiering, and supportive workflows across departments and manages workplace culture challenges to better support families throughout the “fourth trimester.”
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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.
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Value Champions: Including Patient Voices and Perspectives
Oct. 20, 2020 ||Explore the role of patient perspectives and voices in efforts to improve care quality and decrease medical overuse. Part 3 of a three-part Value Champion series.
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Essential hospitals serving complex patients can use the actionable information in this guide to replicate and implement NYC H+H’s process.
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COVID-19: Recovery, Contact Tracing, Telehealth
June 16, 2020 ||New CDC guidance offers best practices to safely venture outside and begin to resume daily activities amid the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as information on using telehealth to expand access. CMS releases recommendations for non-emergent care in areas that are in Phase II of recovery.
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No Resources? No Problem: Strategies to Improve Patient Experience
Nov. 26, 2019 ||
Learn how NYC Health + Hospitals used organizational values to improve service, and gain tools for improving patient experience metrics through data-driven decisions.
view more »The program integrates clinical pharmacists and teleretinal screenings into routine primary care, in addition to using peer mentorship and a mobile app for diabetes management.
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Improving Care for LGBTQ and Limited English Proficient Patients
Aug. 9, 2019 ||
Hear how two essential hospitals launched initiatives to meet the needs of LGBTQ patients and improve care for patients with limited English proficiency.
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Targeting Legal Needs to Improve Health
May 24, 2019 ||A new case study highlights association member NYC Health + Hospitals' partnership with LegalHealth to provide legal assistance to patients.
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DSH Cuts Would ‘Cripple Our System,’ Essential Hospital CEOs Say
May 21, 2019 ||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 »Premier Collaboration Highlights Correlation Between Behavioral Health, Readmissions
April 19, 2019 ||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.
view more »The Faces that Inspire Us
Sept. 24, 2018 ||Each face on our website comes with a story that captures the essence of our members’ mission. Four new stories share how essential hospitals help those on the margins of society.
view more »Innovation and Adaptation: 3 Key Insights from VITAL2018
Aug. 8, 2018 ||Front-line staff engagement, patient empowerment, and collaboration were key themes in our VITAL2018 sessions focused on innovation and adaptation.
view more »Helping Healers Heal promotes peer support in the face of adverse patient events among health care providers at essential hospitals.
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Predicting High-Need Patients Using Readily Available Data
April 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.
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The Gage Awards honor creative and successful programs at essential hospitals that enhance patient care and meet community needs.
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NYC Health+Hospitals Overcomes Challenges to Post-Acute Care
Feb. 10, 2017 ||Under the “Better Way to Live” program, 62 “alternative level of care” patients have been successfully transitioned to a post–acute care facility.
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