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The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to transform primary care practices through a focus on team-based care, management and prevention of chronic illnesses, management of patients with multiple illnesses and patient engagement. The initial two-…
The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represents harm, that these harms are common in hospitalized patients, and they deserve evaluation with the same level of rigor as physical harm. The project involved creating an infrastructure for…
The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier breast programs in western Massachusetts; Radiology and Imaging and the hospital's Comprehensive Breast Center. The primary goals for integration were to combine best practices and features of two…
Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital Cape Cod undertook a multidisciplinary, multi-pronged approach for improvement. First, in policy, using incident and quality data for improvement purposes, not performance assessment, and then…
Case studies in the guide provide examples of how hospital and health systems, working with community partners, can improve the quality of and access to behavioral health care, while bending the cost curve and improving community health.
AHA comment letter to Commissioners Nickel and Wade raising concerns about whether provisions in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that set minimum medical loss ratios (MLRs) and provide rate review standards might temper the anticompetitive effects that will follow in the wake of the pending mergers…
This joint webinar between HPOE and the Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital discusses strategies and approaches implemented by hospitals and health care systems to collect the social determinants of health, with the understanding that this information will be critical for…
AHA to Sen. Sherrod Brown Re: Support for the Healthy Maternity and Obstetric Medicine Act (S. 2220)
AHA letter to Senator Sherrod Brown expressing support for S. 2220, the Healthy Maternity and Obstetric Medicine Act or Healthy MOM Act.
At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are leading initiatives to achieve the Triple Aim: improving the patient experience of care (including quality and satisfaction), improving the health of…
The Issue: The Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act of 2015 (MACRA) makes sweeping changes to how Medicare pays for physician services. The legislation repeals the Medicare physician sustainable growth rate (SGR) formula and instead provides predictable payment increases.