-None- (Hospital Care, Measurement & Reporting, Patient-Centered Care) ... in the doctor’s office, and using patient surveys allows for the measurement of whether care is patient-centered—one of six essential aims for achieving high-quality health care, according to the Institute of ...

Apr 30,2012

St. Mary’s Medical Center Strengthens Discharge Process

Hospital Care ... “invaluable gift of time.” (Hospital Care, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB)) ... vitality and increase patient satisfaction by involving the entire care team as well as the patient in ...

Jul 13,2012

Apr (Hospital Care, Measurement & Reporting, Patient-Centered Care) ... consumers and patients about their experiences in various health care settings. The CAHPS program is funded ... Patients' Experience of Care Public ...

Apr 30,2012

Removing Blind Spots: Seeing All the Data Supports High-Value,Patient-Centered Care

leads to meaningful improvement in the delivery of patient care.   Determined to provide meaningful information and advance the quality and affordability of health care in its state, the Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation (Quality Corp) supported the implementation of the Oregon Health ...

Dec 19,2012

Presentation This presentation by Katherine Flaherty highlights a Massachusetts General Hospital initiative to improve diabetes outcomes and reduce disparities in care among Latino and Cambodian patients.  ...

Aug 01,2011

Using EMR to Improve Interpreter Access

Hospital Care ... monitoring. (read more) (Equity, Hospital Care, Improving Language Services) ... interpreter services, St. Mary’s Hospital in Madison, WI, added a physician Best Practice Alert into Epic, the ...

Jun 06,2012

Shamelessly Stealing Great Ideas

Hospital Care ... hospital’s Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) project. Erie County Medical Center embarked on the ... outpatient hospital or primary care physician visits, Ziemianski said. The staff also initiated a ...

Dec 19,2012

Simple Tools to Reduce Emergency Department Use

Hospital Care ... Meeting  here . (Hospital Care) ... substantially decreased emergency department (ED) use for primary care treatable conditions—all by using ...

May 22,2012

Practice coaches are deployed in hundreds of primary care practices. Hospitals are improving care ... Aligning Forces for Quality is driving health care transformation in communities across America, but can bringing together the people who give care, get care, and pay for care can improve quality in America? The ...

Aug 02,2012

Publicly Reported Quality-Of-Care Measures Influenced Wisconsin Physician Groups to Improve Performance

public reporting drives improvement in ambulatory care. Public reporting of how physicians and hospitals ... the efficacy of public reporting of quality-of-care measures in the March 2013 edition of Health Affairs. The researchers analyzed 14 publicly reported quality-of-care measures from 2004 to 2009 from the ...

Mar 21,2013