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HRSA Posts Some 340B Audit ResultsDate: Wednesday Febraury 27, 2013 The Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA) recently updated its website with information on 18 audits of 340B covered entities it completed in fiscal year (FY) 20
Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital is implementing huddles and other strategies to reduce falls among inpatients. Unit staff determined that a huddle called immediately after a patient falls is crucial for learning and helping to鈥
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The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood glucose management for adult hyperglycemic patients during acute inpatient hospitalization. The goals are to develop improvement strategies that will manage blood glucoses to prevent hypoglycemia (鈥
Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportunities for transformation and innovation in the U.S. health care system. AHA's intensive interactive Health Care Transformation Fellowship provides senior health care leaders with the implementation鈥
The AHA and eight state hospital associations yesterday filed a friend-of-the-court brief urging the full Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals to review a decision by a three-judge panel of the court, which reversed an injunction to prevent a proposed 10% Medicaid payment cut to hospitals and other鈥
Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fellowship facilitor Shawn Foster, this article describes how past fellows are using the tools they learned during the year-long education program to improve patient safety in their facilities.
From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and families to become involved in their care. A new report from the AHA Committee on Research 鈥淓ngaging Health Care Users: A Framework for Healthy Individuals and Communities鈥 presents a鈥