AHA blog: Ensuring health care quality in rural America
Quality improvement initiatives create “a living, breathing network of providers and patients working together to achieve optimal outcomes for all communities,” writes Benjamin Wise, senior program manager of communications strategy for AHA Funded Partnerships, highlighting key takeaways from a roundtable discussion at the AHA Rural Health Care Leadership Conference in February. READ MORE
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