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AHA Patient Safety Initiative Convenes Rural Hospital Leaders to Share Trust, Resilience and Leadership Strategies

Rural hospital leaders from across the country came together to share strategies and insights for improving safety culture, governance and care reliability.
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Patient Safety Continues to Improve Across America

If you had to describe a hospital’s mission, philosophy and guiding light with a single word, safety would sit at the top of the list.
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Current Employee Experience Trends in Health Care

Recent data from Press Ganey, reflecting input from over 1.4 million health care employees, reveals that after an initial post-pandemic rebound, employee engagement declined slightly in 2024 — a decrease of 0.02 on a 5-point scale.
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Smarter, Safer Hospitals: How HCA Healthcare Is Using AI to Redefine Patient Safety

Cross-industry insights and new technology are helping HCA Healthcare reduce risk, improve outcomes and lead the future of high-reliability care
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Quality and Patient Safety Blogs

Blogs from the AHA Trustee Services on quality and patient safety.
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Hospitals Work to Improve Patient Safety Every Day

Hospitals and health systems across the country vary in size, as well as the types of services and specialties they offer. They also offer many different programs to meet the unique needs of the communities they serve.
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Trustees Have an Important Role in Age-Friendly Care that Benefits All Patients

An unswerving commitment age-friendly quality and patient safety principles improves outcomes for older patients and patients of all ages.
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New Study: Physician-owned Hospitals Threaten Patient Access and Financial Viability of Full-service Sole Community Hospitals

Results from a new Dobson | DaVanzo study further support retaining the ban on new Physician-Owned Hospitals (POHs) and explain the damage of expanding POHs in rural communities.
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Prioritizing Patient Safety and Quality Care Every Day for Everyone

This week marks five years since President Trump declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency and related lockdowns across the globe turned the world we knew upside down.
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Protecting Patients and Hospitals from Cyberattacks

This week, the FBI issued an urgent warning to all users — including hospitals — of a critical security soft spot within Oracle’s E-Business Suite, stating “This is ‘stop-what-you’re-doing and patch immediately vulnerability.’”