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Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than caring for veterans with other medical conditions, costing more than $12 billion in 2007, according to a new RAND Corporation study. The study found that while the proportion of veterans who received the…
The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive assessments of U.S. population health and health care quality, access, efficiency, and equity. It finds substantial improvement on quality-of-care indicators that have been the focus of public…
How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Madras, Ore., can count the 1,660 pounds that participants collectively lost in Movin? Mountains Health Challenge 2010. MVH serves a diverse, rural and somewhat economically…
The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination and integration among health care providers, including the promotion of accountable care organizations and health homes. While much discussion has focused on how these strategies might be adopted by…
The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the difference between expected and actual graft rejections/patient expirations rates. SUNY Donstate, in partnership wtih Metrompolitan Jewish Health System's long-term home health care program created the post…
Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabilitation population. It was noted that 90 percent of patients who fell in December 2009 were cerebral vascular accident patients. Twenty-two percent of the patients who fell had left-sided CVAs, 67…
Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed at Mercy Medical Center. The functional capacity of the ED for 'treat and release' patients was impaired, post-anesthesia recovery room flow was adversely affected, and patient and staff satisfaction…
In the United States, there has been a growing health care divide between vulnerable populations defined in this report as people without health insurance, low-income families, and racial and ethnic minorities and the rest of society. Decades of research has demonstrated that vulnerable Americans…
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