Quality & Patient Safety
This guide describes the types of risks that lead to patient falls, the root causes for those risks and the solutions designed to reduce them. Several case studies in the guide highlight individual hospitals and their experiences preventing falls.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Sept. 29 awarded $347 million in contracts to 16 organizations, including the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET), to continue efforts to reduce hospital- acquired conditions and readmissions in the Medicare program.
Click here to view the HEN 2.0 Final Report.
A powerful example of hospital collaboration for better patient care is what we were able to accomplish through the Hospital Engagement Network, or HEN, part of the federal Partnership for Patients initiative.
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services today awarded $347 million in contracts to 16 organizations, including the AHA’s Health Research & Educational Trust, to continue efforts to reduce hospital-acquired conditions and readmissions in the Medicare program. The Hospital…
Hospitals continue to improve patient care, according to results from the second round of the AHA/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) Hospital Engagement Network (HEN), part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Partnership for Patients initiative.
Hospitals continue to improve patient care, according to results from the second round of the AHA/Health Research & Educational Trust Hospital Engagement Network, part of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Partnership for Patients initiative.
Hospitals continue to make great progress in their journey to improve patient care, according to new results released today by the ºÚÁÏÕýÄÜÁ¿ Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET).
This webinar explains the holistic people-process-place approach to satisfaction and shows health care leaders how to use the health care physical environment—an often overlooked resource—to improve the patient experience.
Medicare 30-day readmission rates declined in 49 states between 2010 and 2015, resulting in an estimated 565,000 fewer hospital readmissions, according to data released yesterday by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. Rates fell by more than 5% in 43 states and by more than 10%…