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Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condition that has a 28% to 50% mortality rate and is quite costly to treat. Kennedy Health, an integrated health delivery system in New Jersey, has developed a systemwide approach to improve sepsis care and…
Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system with hospital-centered campuses in Cherry Hill, Stratford and Washington Township, N.J. With more than 4,000 employees and nearly 1,000 medical staff members, Kennedy health offers inpatient and…
In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health systems are focusing on supplier diversity. In 2014, CHRISTUS Health, a Catholic, not-for-profit health system with services in six U.S. states, Mexico and Chile, created a Diversity Supplier Council.…
This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature the 2015 AHA Equity of Care Award winners, Henry Ford Health System and Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital.
Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do the same with health care teams. At WVU Hospitals, in Morgantown, W.V., physicians and medical residents teamed up to see their patients at the hospital's outpatient clinic, within 7 to 14 days after…