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Guides/Reports

Improvement in Safety Culture Linked to Better Patient and Staff Outcomes

Report shows hospitals outperform pre-pandemic levels, boosting patient safety, care experience and workforce resilience.
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Patient Safety Initiative FAQ

Hospitals and health systems shared their passion to reinforce patient safety efforts with AHA, resulting in this national patient safety initiative.
AHA Center for Health Innovation Market Scan
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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.
Cybersecurity Government Intelligence Reports
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Health Industry Cybersecurity Practices: Managing Threats and Protecting Patients

Cybersecurity threats to healthcare organizations and patient safety are real. Health IT provides critical lifesaving functions.
Trailblazers

Mobilizing Data to Improve Operational Efficiency

Improving operational performance of hospitals, health care IT strategy, health care leadership, reducing the cost of health care
Webforms/Surveys

2024 Patient Safety Initiative Member Registration

AHA invites member hospitals and health systems to join us in elevating our long-held commitment to patient safety.
Guides/Reports
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New Analysis Shows Hospitals Improving Performance on Key Patient Safety Measures Surpassing Pre-pandemic Levels

This report using data analyzed by Vizient shows that hospital performance on key patient safety and quality measures is better in the first quarter of 2024 than it was right before the COVID-19 pandemic.
Guides/Reports

Member Report: Quality Trends and the AHA Patient Safety Initiative

Explore transformative health care quality insights and the AHA Patient Safety Initiative, addressing challenges, trends and future priorities
Case Studies
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Advocate Condell Hospital: Improving Process to Improve Infection Prevention and Control

To reduce infection rates more effectively, successful hospitals and health systems are focusing on the fundamentals. For Advocate Condell Hospital, the focus is on process improvements.
Guides/Reports
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2024 Costs of Caring

While recent data suggest that some hospital and health system finances have experienced modest stabilization from historic lows in 2022, the hospital field is still far from where it needs to be to meet the demand for care, invest in new and promising technologies and interventions, and stand ready for the next health care crisis.