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Transparency, Not Surprise: Empower Patients in Cost Conversations

Mar 6, 2019 || Staff

In the fourth installment of the Cost of Care Conversations webinar series, learn how to empower and guide patients to talk about health care costs.

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Transparency, Not Surprise: Provider Tools for Cost Conversations

Mar 6, 2019 || Staff

In the third installment of the Cost of Care Conversations webinar series, gain practical skills for training providers to discuss the cost of care with vulnerable patients.

patient care, patient engagement

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Stronger Together: Join the Medical Leaders Interest Group

Feb 22, 2019 || Iti Madan

The Medical Leaders Interest Group gives clinical leaders an opportunity to share work, discuss common topics, and learn from essential hospital peers.

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Integrating Person-Centered Care & Evidence-Based Research: A Road Map for Essential Hospitals

Jul 2, 2018 || Madeline White

With funding from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute, the Essential Hospitals Institute developed a road map to help hospitals overcome barriers to implementing person-centered care and evidence based research.

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Practice Ownership Changes Do Not Compromise Patient Responsiveness

Apr 6, 2018 || Katherine Susman-Yi

Hospital ownership of physician practices can yield benefits, including improved responsiveness to patient needs, University of California researchers have found.

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New UCSD Tool Speeds Up ID of Bacteria in Blood

Feb 15, 2017 || Michelle Rosenfeld

University of California-San Diego researchers have found a way to detect harmful chemicals in a blood sample in mere hours, with 99 percent accuracy.

innovation, patient care, ucsd

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Taking a Stand to Prevent Falls in Elderly Patients

Sep 22, 2016 || Monika Joshi

Recognizing the opportunity for improvement in geriatrics care, association members NuHealth and Zuckerberg San Francisco General Hospital have made falls prevention a priority.

community outreach, falls prevention, nuhealth, patient care, sfgh

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Pokémon Go Helps Harborview Patients Heal

Aug 11, 2016 || Monika Joshi

Pokémon Go, the augmented-reality game, has helped pediatric patients at Seattle's Harborview Medical Center recover from burn injuries.

harborview medical center, innovation, patient care, uw medicine

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Narrative Medicine Helps To Heal at HCMC

Apr 1, 2016 || Monika Joshi

Syl Jones is planting the seed of narrative medicine—an approach that emphasizes the importance of patient stories in health care—into the minds of students and physicians at Hennepin County Medical Center.

health professionals training, hennepin county medical center, patient care

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Center Offers Funding for Payment, Care Delivery Reform

Feb 23, 2016 || Monika Joshi

The National Safety Net Advancement Center at Arizona State University has announced virtual learning collaboratives and grant funding of up to $80,000 for hospitals working to overcome payment and care delivery reform challenges.

delivery system reform, patient care, payment

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Henry Ford Brings Cutting-Edge Technology to Brain Center

Jan 29, 2016 || Monika Joshi

Detroit hospital among first in nation to deploy state-of-the-art BrightMatter brain surgery technology, which will make possible operations that previously were too risky to perform.

henry ford hospital, innovation, patient care

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CDC Calls for Better Hepatitis C Infection Control

Jan 27, 2016 || Monika Joshi

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued a health advisory for the growing number of hemodialysis patients who are acquiring hepatitis C virus (HCV).

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