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Joint Commission Implements Hand Hygiene Rules for Individuals

March 29, 2018 || Rachel Schwartz

The new rules allow surveyors to penalize a hospital for a deficiency if an individual fails to perform hand hygiene in the process of direct patient care.

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CMS Names 16 Hospital Improvement Innovation Networks

Nov. 2, 2016 || Michelle Rosenfeld

CMS has awarded $347 million to the 16 organizations — including Premier Inc. — to support the next phase of a patient safety initiative.

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Article Reviews Progress 15 Years after ‘To Err is Human’

Dec. 23, 2015 || Maryellen Guinan

New journal article notes challenges remain since IOM published report, but also points out progress, including reducing CLABSI rates nationwide.

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Toolkit Helps Hospitals with Clinical Alarms Safety Goal

Dec. 2, 2015 || Matthew Buechner

Hospitals must establish and implement policies and procedures for managing alarms starting Jan. 1, 2016.

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CDC Report Shows Progress in Patient Safety

Jan. 15, 2015 || Sandy Laycox, MFA

CDC lists the Partnership for Patients, which includes the association's Essential Hospitals Engagement Network, among initiatives that have lowered the rate of health care-associated infections.

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NQF Releases EED Elimination Playbook

Aug. 27, 2014 || Sandy Laycox, MFA

The playbook, developed by a team of leading experts, provides best practices for eliminating EEDs and strategies for overcoming barriers.

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Clamping Down on Preeclampsia

July 3, 2014 || Darlene Shenier

Learn how to improve outcomes for preeclampsia patients

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Association Applauds Patient Safety Accomplishments

May 7, 2014 || Carl Graziano

America's Essential Hospitals joins the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services in recognizing the recent accomplishments of hospital engagement networks and other safety and quality initiatives. Federal officials announced May 7 that the initiatives have decreased patient harm by 9 percent and readmissions by 8 percent.

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VTE Measures and Prevention

April 7, 2014 || Staff

This is the third webinar in the Essential Hospitals Engagement Network’s patient harm series.

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Essential Insights

A Reason to Hope

March 5, 2014 || Carolyn Brown

As a health care professional who is closer to the end of her career than the beginning, I am prone to view the current state of health care quality as a culmination of decades of strategies, collaborations, regulations, competition, legislative actions, and heuristic thinking swirling madly around the people who rely on us so greatly: our patients.

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Patient Safety Awareness Week 2014: Helping Patients Navigate Their Health

March 3, 2014 || Maya Linson

Patient Safety Awareness Week 2014 highlights why it is essential to engage patients and consumers in the health care process.

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Just Culture: What Happens When Individuals are Responsible for Safety Mishaps?

Feb. 28, 2014 || Maya Linson

Leaders discussed Just Culture algorithms and the difference between reckless behavior and a blameless error

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Leadership for Safety: Safety Briefing (Part 1)

Feb. 28, 2014 || Maya Linson

This session focused on the daily safety huddle

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Leadership for Safety: Will and Transparency

Feb. 28, 2014 || Maya Linson

This webinar discussed how to achieve system-level results and the powers of transparency in health care

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Leadership for Safety: Getting the Board On Board

Feb. 28, 2014 || Maya Linson

Jim Reinertsen, MD, discussed how starting leadership meetings with a patient story can be impactful

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Leadership for Safety Web Workshop: Reality Rounding

Feb. 28, 2014 || Maya Linson

Participants focused on reality rounding and fixing problems that are uncovered through these meetings

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When Things Go Really Wrong: Responding to Patient Safety Disasters

Feb. 28, 2014 || Maya Linson

This session highlighted the value of transparency and effective disclosure practices

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Reliability: Keeping Our Promises

Feb. 28, 2014 || Maya Linson

Participants discussed high reliability principles and strategies

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Engaging Physicians in Safety Initiatives

Feb. 28, 2014 || Maya Linson

Dr. Jim Reinertsen discussed why engaging physicians is important to quality and patient safety

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Safety Attitude Questionnaire: Unit Level Results on Teamwork and Non-Punitive Response to Error

Feb. 28, 2014 || Maya Linson

Leaders shared their most recent unit-level Culture of Safety survey results

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How to Combat Alarm Fatigue

Feb. 25, 2014 || Maya Linson

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.

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Physicians Embrace Their Role in Improving Patient Safety

Feb. 12, 2014 || Staff

A Contra Costa physician describes how her team is working to improve venous thromboemolism, and how the project has become personal for her and her colleagues.

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AHRQ Revamps Mission Under New Director

Feb. 10, 2014 || Maya Linson

The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality's new director, Richard Kronick, PhD, has refocused the agency’s mission to emphasize producing evidence to make health care safer, more accessible, equitable, and affordable.

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Leadership for Safety: Safety and the EHR

Jan. 31, 2014 || Darlene Shenier

Discuss what's happening in your units that use electronic health records

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Leadership for Safety: Responding to Patient Safety Disasters

Jan. 31, 2014 || Darlene Shenier

Learn how to carry out a crisis management plan when a patient safety disaster occurs

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CMS Awards America’s Essential Hospitals Third Year for Initiative to Reduce Harm, Readmissions

Jan. 30, 2014 || Carl Graziano

The federal Partnership for Patients initiative will support for a third year the association's Essential Hospitals Engagement Network (EHEN), one of 26 such networks nationally working to reduce nine hospital-acquired conditions by 40 percent and 30-day readmissions by 20 percent by the end of 2014.

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Patient Safety: Huddles, Checklists Reduce Harm Rates

Jan. 30, 2014 || Maya Linson

Recent studies, which appeared in the January 2014 issue of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety, highlight how several hospitals successfully reduced patient harm in different areas of their organization.

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