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Community members are integral partners at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania, helping to ensure high-quality, equitable care. Based in the cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, LVHN for many years had provided culturally competent services, including telephonic interpreters,…
Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by the care team at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago.
This infographic also illustrates five goals for hospitals:
Coordinate hospital-based interventions with community stakeholders and other key partners through mature collaborations;
Increase preventive health services through coordinated care across the health care continuum;
Provide…
I want to bring to your attention efforts by the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to unjustifiably limit how hospitals can demonstrate they qualify for tax-exempt status, and recommend that Congress take action to reverse this decision and enact legislation that would hold the IRS accountable by…
Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls are the leading cause of both fatal and nonfatal injuries; in 2012, 24 million nonfatal falls among older adults were treated in EDs and more than 722,000 of these patients were hospitalized, per the CDC…
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is sharing with the field the survey guide its expert teams use to assess the readiness of designated hospitals to treat Ebola.