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Care About Your Care—Special Edition

AF4Q's endeavor to reduce preventable hospital readmissions and improve the quality of care delivered across care settings. When patients move across settings, for example, from a hospital to a nursing ... coordinated. Poor care coordination frequently results in unnessesary and costly hospital readmissions. The ...

Feb 12,2013

Bullish on Business

hospitals and health plans in their communities to improve care for their employees at a manageable cost. ... Employers have great—if to date, under-utilized—market leverage in buying health care. They often can ... stakeholders, can and must play a critical role in driving health care transformation. Clearly, they have a huge ...

Jul 02,2013

October 2013 | Bridge the Gap

AF4Q communities have recently started to examine what happens outside of hospital and clinic ... AF4Q is improving the way health care is delivered, paid for, and received in 16 communities across the country. Recently, these communities have started to examine what happens outside of hospital and clinic ...

Oct 10,2013

Sinai-Grace Hospital Gets Hospital Discharges Right

Hospital Care Mon, 2012-07-16 (All day) Sinai-Grace Hospital TCAB Team focused on the ... telemetry unit, resulting in their discharge HCAHPS scores reaching 90 percent. (Hospital Care ...

Jul 16,2012

Collaborative Participants and Hospital QI Champions Workflow illustrating issues, patient flow and possible interventions. Tool used in early stages of Hospital Readmissions Collaborative ... -None- (Ambulatory Care, Practice-based Coaching) ...

Sep 17,2011

From Memphis: Methodist North Hospital’s “30 Minute Guarantee”

Methodist North Hospital, a participant in the HQN Increasing Throughput project, implemented a “30-Minute ... personal apology from Methodist North Hospital’s CEO. The hospital received substantial positive media ... significantly improving the patient experience hospital-wide. Methodist North Hospital is planning future ...

Aug 18,2011

Transitional Care May Cut Hospital Readmission Rate

Hospital Care ... patients who participate in transitional care programs after initial discharge from hospital are ... care program were in fact 48% less likely to require hospital readmission than counterparts who chose ...

Aug 18,2011

Aligning Forces for Quality Improves Hospital Care Quality

Hospital Care ... signature effort to improve the quality of health care 150 hospital teams participated in prestigious ... AF4Q hospital quality improvement collaborative improved the quality of care for their patients in ...

Jul 31,2012

Hospitals use AF4Q heart failure calendar to improve care: 2012 edition just released!

Hospital Care Care Across Settings Consumer Engagement ... resource collection here .  (Care Across Settings, Consumer Engagement, Hospital Care, Reducing ...

Dec 20,2011

Hospitals This toolkit by the Institute for Patient- and Family-Centered Care offers guidance for how to get started in advancing the practice of patient- and family-centered care and ... Hospital Quality Network: December 2011 Quality Forum Resource Collection ...

Dec 13,2011

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