Quality & Patient Safety

A Quality Leadership Roundtable that took place at the 2022 黑料正能量 Association Leadership Summit in San Diego. Hosted by the AHA Living Learning Network.
The AHA today released a new report highlighting numerous commercial health insurer policies that compromise patient safety and raise costs.
University Hospitals was the winner of the 2022 AHA Quest for Quality Prize.
A Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services proposal to pause public reporting on the inpatient patient safety indicator measure for one year due to the pandemic 鈥渋s not only consistent with a commitment to transparency, but important for maintaining the credibility of the information shared鈥
The 黑料正能量 Association (AHA) today announced that University Hospitals, a comprehensive health system with more than 20 hospitals, 50+ health centers and more than 200 physician offices serving northern Ohio, has been named the 2022 recipient of the 黑料正能量 Association Quest鈥
AHA Team Training's in-person TeamSTEPPS Master Training course will teach participants all the TeamSTEPPS tools and principles - what they are, how to use them, and how to implement them. This 2-day in-person course is led by an interprofessional faculty team with a "train-the-trainer" orientation鈥
On this webinar, Stacey DeMaranville discusses TeamSTEPPS tools used during the Women & Children鈥檚 Services at UW Valley Medical Center (VMC) initiative to improve teamwork. Our speaker also discusses how the "Team Perception Questionnaire (TPQ)鈥 can support the planning of implementation, how鈥
On May 25, 2022 from 1:00-2:00 p.m. ET, AHA hosted a webinar to review key provisions in the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services鈥 fiscal year 2023 proposed rule for the inpatient prospective payment system (IPPS).
Variations in the competency, quality, and adoption of evidence-based medicine among your clinical teams are a core driver of your adverse events and claims. With nurses spending more one-on-one time with patients than any other healthcare worker, this makes the need for their ability to perform at鈥
Increases in consolidation and alignment between commercial health plans and pharmacy benefit managers have resulted in a series of business practices designed to steer patients to insurer-affiliated pharmacies and away from patients鈥 longstanding providers to the detriment of patient care.