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Spotlight on South Central Pennsylvania

nurses, and other providers are involved in a patient’s care, so effective communication is critical. AF4Q South Central Pennsylvania’s Nurses Council initiated a pilot project in 2012 to enhance communication during handoffs in which hospitals and skilled nursing facilities adopted a modified ...

Jan 20,2015

Care About Your Care—Special Edition

across care settings. When patients move across settings, for example, from a hospital to a nursing ... on how nurses, care coordinators, doctors, consumers, caregivers, and patients can work together to ... class="rteindent1"> In-home visits following hospitalization by nurses and other professionals to ensure appropriate ...

Feb 12,2013

Engaging Hospital Volunteers And Patients To Improve Care

Foundation’s Aligning Forces for Quality program, TCAB engages nurses and other frontline staff in hospitals to ... nurses from the TCAB team, representatives from departments such as housekeeping and physical therapy ... pursue follow-up care. As a result, the TCAB team started a trial in which both the nurse and the doctor ...

Dec 05,2012

Reducing Readmissions November Quality Forum

Mary Nevins, Clinical Nurse Leader, St. Elizabeth Hospital, Wisconsin

   

TCAB Cohort I and II Biannual Meeting, November 8-10, 2011 (Washington, DC)

202-994-8658 Email: nurses@forces4quality.org Go Back to this Event on MyForces ...

May 24,2012

Protecting Hearts

assigning LACE scores to each patient upon admission. If a patient had a high score, care transition nurses ...

Jul 03,2013

Improving Hospital Readmission Rates

care transition nurses closely monitored the patient and provided more comprehensive education. During ...

Aug 07,2013

Primary Care Use Driving Down Costs, Improving Care

recruited and supported by nurse care coordinators partly funded by CMS. MetroHealth—Ohio’s largest ...

Jul 31,2014

Improving Care Through Screening and Public Reporting

a dozen physicians and nurses, worked together over six months to select a set of proven best ...

Jul 31,2014

Where should I incorporate consumers into my practice or hospital?

with nurses” score rose from 69 percent to 88 percent, and “would definitely recommend the hospital” ...

Oct 02,2013

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