Public
American Hospital Association content that is available to the public and all website users.
Today, Medicare covers more than 48 million people, and that number is growing rapidlybaby boomers are reaching the eligibility age of 65 at the rate of 10,000 a day.1 Medicare patients exhibit a growing prevalence of chronic conditions and risk factors for these conditions, such as obesity. This…
43,750: That's the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates would be prevented over three years if hospitals cut preventable fall injuries by 50% in 2013. Essentia Health in Fargo, N.D., aims to decrease preventable falls in its cardiac telemetry unit by 25% by…
The conclusion of H&HN's yearlong series on hospital, community and national efforts to identify and better treat high utilizers of care takes an inside look at one hospital's efforts to reach this critical patient population.
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics at Research Psychiatric Center in Kansas City, Mo., showed high rates for falls and use of restraints and low rates for employee and patient satisfaction. RPC adopted the Baldrige performance excellence…
In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneously improving population health, improving the patient experience of care and reducing per capita cost. The Institute for Healthcare Improvement developed the 'Triple Aim' as a statement of purpose for…
This articles argues that now is the time to integrate public health and primary care in a way that improves population health outcomes and enhances quality of life.
The move from volume- to value-based care has profound implications for those who design, build and maintain health care facilities. So the magazine asked renowned author, consultant and health care futurist Ian Morrison, Ph.D., to put some key issues in perspective as hospital leaders manage this…