Public
American Hospital Association content that is available to the public and all website users.
At hospitals and health care systems across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are leading initiatives to achieve the Triple Aim: improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction), improving the health of populations and reducing the per capita cost of health…
The St. Joseph's Hospital Health Center created a Hypoglycemic Task Force to recognize and decrease inpatient hypoglycemic events in hopes of positively impacting patient care experience and overall population health. This team of inter-professionals use education and standardized protocols to:
Northern Westchester Hospital is improving their patients' experience through the Food Is Care program. Established by the hospital's staff, the program first determines the patient's food preferences and dietary requirements before providing fresh meals. Made with 90 percent of locally grown…
Since 2012, the Aiming for Zero program at Northwell Hospital is continuously working to reduce CAUTIs across the hospital's 15 locations. By integrating focused guidelines, uniform metrics, best strategies for prevention and dedicated CAUTI teams, the initiative was able to:
The need for quick assessment provided by burn experts from Lehigh Valley Health Networks (LVHNs) Regional Burn Center (RBC) for providers administering care at sites distant from the Burn Center motivated the technological innovation that is LVHN TeleBurn
This webinar explains the holistic people-process-place approach to satisfaction and shows health care leaders how to use the health care physical environment—an often overlooked resource—to improve the patient experience.
Held September 20, 2016
Join a group of your colleagues for a webinar and discussion. Shastri Swaminathan, M.D., Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, and Sheri Richardt, LCSW, Manager, Crisis/First Access/MICCS, Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical Center, Chicago, IL, will describe the impact of…
Dr. Swaminathan, Chairman, Department of Psychiatry, Advocate Illinois Medical Center, Chicago
AHA letter to House Energy and Commerce Committee expressing support for the amendment in the nature of a substitute for H.R. 4365, trotecting Patient Access to Emergency Medications Act of 2016he P.