Leveraging Successes: Building Quality Improvement Capacity

Quality Improvement Capacity,” will be held July 18 from 2-3 pm ET. Join us to hear from hospitals that have made strides in reducing readmissions, increasing throughput, and improving language ... that have made strides in reducing readmissions, increasing throughput, and improving language ...

Language is the Heart of Patient Safety

language he understands, it goes to his head. If you talk him in his own language, it goes to his heart.””  Moe Rustom is the director of clinical language services at Oakwood Healthcare System. (Equity) ...

Dec 02,2014

desk or registration staff to: Understand the role of R/E/L data and quality improvement ... Collection of standardized patient race, ethnicity and language (R/E/L) data; Analysis of performance measures stratified by R/E/L; and Identification and evaluation of quality improvement ...

Oct 14,2011

Find MI Care is Improving Access and Reducing Readmissions

practice’s location, availability of language services, website, phone number, what to bring to an ... programming and activities, GDAHC advocates and leads change and improvement in the way health services are ... Patients in Michigan looking for a doctor or other health care services can use the Find MI Care website ( ...

May 07,2014

Improving Care Everywhere: Local Solutions to National Problems

Readmissions, Increasing Throughput, and Improving Language Services—are running concurrently. The April ... Increasing Throughput, and Improving Language Services—are running concurrently. The April 25 webinar ... To improve quality locally, more than 100 forward-thinking hospitals participate in AF4Q ...

Sustaining QI Services Affinity Group - June Meeting

This is the second meeting of the Sustaining Quality Improvement Services Affinity Group. This webinar will discuss an initial draft of the physician quality improvement needs survey discussed in past ... the Sustaining Quality Improvement Services Affinity Group. This webinar will discuss an initial draft ...

Collaboratives Overview

language services empower nurses at the bedside. In the ambulatory setting, ... Through our work in Aligning Forces for Quality, we can improve the quality of health care by supporting ambulatory practices and hospitals in how they can make improvements in caring for patients. ...

Jun 20,2011

required the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) to expand its Physician Directory tool. CMS ... also provides information on whether doctors have foreign language proficiencies, if they accept ... physicians to improve their practice patterns and the quality of care they provide. The Wisconsin ...

Oct 01,2013

Sustaining QI Services - April Meeting

This is the second meeting of the Sustaining Quality Improvement Services Affinity Group. This ... of quality improvement services and lay the foundation for future group work.  ... target="_blank">https://gwuedu.webex.com/gwuedu/j.php?ED=162104587&UID=1181951097&RT=MiMxMQ%3D%3D This is the second meeting of the Sustaining Quality Improvement Services Affinity Group. This ...

together prior to starting a formal quality improvement team to develop and design a new program, create a Patient-Centered Medical Home, or redesign current services. Public ...

May 12,2015