Engaging Hospital Volunteers And Patients To Improve Care

Hospital Care ... to time. They care about the hospital and have firsthand insight on what goes on here,” said Sarah ... (Hospital Care) ...

Dec 05,2012

Hospitals Ahead of the Nation in Quality and Safety of Patient Care

the quality and safety of patient care. The 10 area hospitals beat national and state average rates for 30-day heart failure readmissions, outperformed more than 65 percent of hospitals on ideal measures of heart failure care, and standardized collection of race, ethnicity, and preferred language ...

Aug 07,2013

Oregon Hospitals Join Effort to Improve Quality of Health Care

2011-08-23 (All day) The Oregon Association of Hospitals and Health Systems ... Care at the Bedside (TCAB) initiative. AF4Q, the signature effort of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation to improve the quality of care in communities throughout the country, is a national partnership that ...

Aug 23,2011

October 2014 | Payment Reform

Health care payment reform is critical to employers and other health care purchasers looking to contain health care costs and get greater value for their spending. The current fee-for-service model can encourage unnecessary care, driving up costs as we pay for the volume of care instead of its value. Reforms ...

Oct 07,2014

Anything But Routine- Lovelace Westside Hospital Transforms Care at the Bedside

Westside Hospital also is part of the Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) initiative, which engages ... the CAHPS® Hospital Survey, it gauges patients’ perspectives on multiple factors related to their care ... Patient-Centered Care ...

Dec 17,2012

Improving Care on the Front Lines | September 2013

Health care is a national problem, but the solutions are local. Here are three stories of how AF4Q improves care on the ground. AF4Q knows that health care is a national problem that needs local solutions. That's why the ...

Sep 04,2013

Albuquerque's First Hospital and Practice Public Reports

Hospital Care Ambulatory Care ... (Ambulatory Care, Hospital Care) ...

Sep 01,2011

York Hospital Improves Patient Safety and Nurse Staffing

Hospital Care ... York Hospital set out to determine the number of patients one nurse can care for. This is a difficult ... count.  (Hospital Care, Patient-Centered Care, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)) ...

Jul 13,2012

The Hospital Readmissions Reduction Program (HRRP) in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA) will reduce Medicare payments to "applicable hospitals" that have an ... 2011 (Care Across Settings, Hospital Care, Health Care Legal Issues) ...

Oct 31,2011

2012 (Ambulatory Care, Hospital Care, Patient-Centered Care) ... Across the United States, hospitals are asking patients to report on their experience during their inpatient stay. This information is important as hospitals work toward improving their performance. Using ...

Apr 11,2012