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In this webinar learn how health care leaders are using these tools in their own organizations and as part of a larger community engagement effort to position their region to pursue a multisector change strategy that addresses the system-level causes of population health outcomes.
The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and national average for all three quality indicators (AMI, CHF and community-acquired pneumonia). In January 2011, the hospital started a new CQI+ team to implement the Illinois Hospital Association Project Re…
May 31 - June 6, 2015, is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement established this week to raise awareness and increase understanding of how community health strategies complement, though they remain distinct from, individual medical care. Visit the ACHI…
To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health care costs, a multifaceted approach to reducing the number of potentially avoidable hospital readmissions was developed for the heart failure population. This approach included: a focus on in-hospital…
AHA comments on the UPS Conventions revised proposed general chapter <800> Hazardous Drugs Handling in Healthcare Setting.
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management works with health services organizations and educators to expand leadership opportunities for minorities in health services management.
Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined the Illinois Hospital Association Patient Safety Collaborative to 'Stop BSI.' The infection control committee established a goal to decrease CLABSI to below the National Healthcare Safety Network pooled…
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for central line blood stream infection prevention, the hospital reduced its critical care central line blood stream infection rate from 14.6 per 1,000 device days in 2004 to zero for the past 57 months. A…