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Top 4 Takeaways from New AHA Safety Insights Report
The newly released Insights Report, “Improvement in Safety Culture Linked to Better Patient and Staff Outcomes,” highlights progress on additional outcome measures of patient safety including some that reflect the ongoing work led by nurses to protect patients.
4 Steps to Improve Medical Device Recall Tracking
As of late February, there were 147 medical device recall events and 20 of them, or 13.6%, were Class I, according to a Modern Healthcare report.
Guthrie Clinic Adds Virtual Care Hub to Address Nursing Shortage, Boost Patient Access and Safety
Discover how Guthrie Clinic's Pulse Center, a virtual care hub, reduced labor costs and nurse turnover while improving patient safety and satisfaction.
3 Top Takeaways from Health Care 2025 Forecasts
Each year we review a slew of health care outlooks and, after sifting through them, here are a few of the more interesting hypotheses.
Success Stories in Driving Quality and Safety Improvement
Join us on Thursday, Dec. 7, 2023, from noon until 1 p.m. CT, for AHA’s Leadership Scan on “Bringing a ‘Systemness’ Focus to Quality, Safety and Patient Experience: How to drive repeatable improvement through uniformity and greater transparency.”
Insights from AHA’s Quality Collective
To share strategies and insights from health care leaders exploring quality and performance, the AHA recently released its Quality Collective (QC) report.
4 Leaders in Improving Quality Care
AHA Quest for Quality Prize winner WellSpan Health is determined to improve health equity across its eight-hospital system headquartered in York, Pennsylvania.
How OR 'Black Boxes' Are Helping to Improve Safety
The OR Black Box made by Surgical Safety Technologies Inc. in Toronto, which Teodor Grantcharov, M.D., Ph.D., founded, is used in select ORs at Stanford Medicine and in a couple dozen hospitals in the U.S., Canada and Western Europe. The system comprises sensors and software and interacts with video, audio, patient vital signs and data captured from medical devices.
Top Priority — 3 Health Care Emergency Preparedness Tips
In a recent AHA Leadership Scan panel discussion, “When Disaster Strikes: How to Maintain Continuity of Care,” leaders from Lee Health, Fort Myers, Florida, California-based Fountain Valley Regional Hospital and North American Partners in Anesthesia shared insights on building and maintaining a culture of preparedness.
Cleveland Clinic Akron General Adopts New Birthing Model to Improve Outcomes
To address the issue of pregnant Black people experiencing severe complications and dying at higher rates, Akron General recently became one of four hospitals in the country to implement a new care model designed to improve outcomes for pregnant patients by focusing on communication and teamwork to enhance safety and quality of care.