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Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance patient safety and reduce costs while maintaining or improving patient outcomes, including all-cause mortality. Using Lean Six Sigma process improvement methodologies, a 500-bed tertiary medical center…
Sinai Health System, Chicago, “Helping Adults Breathe and Thrive: A Healthy Homes Approach to Improving Respiratory Health of Adults with Asthma.” In one year, the program reduced asthma-related emergency department visits by 66 PERCENT, hospitalizations by 57 percent and participants' daytime…
A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing facility is dramatically reducing patient readmissions. Atlantic General Hospital, a 62-bed facility in Berlin, Md., discharges many patients to a local, privately owned post-acute care facility. In…
This AHRQ video vignette illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention.
This joint HPOE, Health Services Research journal and Equity of Care webinar explores methods to specifically improve the clinical content and race/ethnicity information in these uniform databases.
AHA comments on the America's Health Insurance Plans' (AHIP) testimony for the House Judiciary Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform, Commercial and Antitrust Law's September 10, 2015 hearing on "The State of Competition in the Health Care Marketplace."
By adopting a supplier diversity program, hospitals and health care systems can support minority-owned businesses and communities while obtaining products and services of competitively high quality and value.
Nine in 10 adults in the community lacked the literacy skills to manage their health and prevent disease. That was the conclusion of staff members from Providence Medical Center in Wayne, Neb, after attending a health literacy summit in 2008. The 25-bed critical access hospital responded by…
Comment letter to the National Association of Insurance Commissioners' Subgroup regarding the Sept. 1 proposed revisions to the Health Benefit Plan Network Access and Adequacy Model Act (Model Act). The AHA believes that the proposed revisions address the problems providers and consumers face with…