A Patient-Centered Plan to Help Super-Utilizers

Program (CTP) at St. Joseph Hospital and the Priority Care program at the Humboldt Del Norte IPA. The two ... Patient-Centered Care ... (RWJF), health care spending in the United States is unevenly distributed, with the sickest five percent ...

May 09,2013

Leveraging Successes: Building Quality Improvement Capacity

The final AF4Q Hospital Quality Network (HQN) webinar, “Leveraging Successes: Building Quality Improvement Capacity,” will be held July 18 from 2-3 pm ET. Join us to hear from hospitals ... services.  Front-line staff and leadership from across the care continuum will share their experiences about ...

Humboldt's Two-Tiered Initiative to Reduce Readmissions

Care Across Settings ... method incorporates both a traditional strategy to reduce readmissions using Eric Coleman’s Care ... Health System-Humboldt County, a two-hospital provider in the community. “Reducing readmissions requires ...

Feb 21,2013

Applying a Team Approach to Patient Discharge

collaborative working with area providers and hospitals to improve health care quality. Dr. Letourneau noted the ... to improve care. “Many quality improvement initiatives can sometimes feel like a chore for hospital ... care organization (ACO) relies heavily on greater coordinated care among providers to reduce hospital ...

Dec 13,2012

WCHQ Hosts Patient Experience Summit

Wisconsin Hospital Association (WHA) on September 30 in La Crosse, Wisconsin.  The event was funded through the Aligning Forces for Quality grant.  WCHQ brought together more than 35 health care organizations from throughout Wisconsin with more than 120 health care professionals participating in the day-long ...

Nov 18,2011

care hospitals and over 50 academic and private healthcare systems in the US, Canada, Central and South ... implement a PD initiative focused on MRSA prevention in the acute and long term care facilities of the ... -None- (Patient-Centered Care) ...

Apr 13,2012

Catalyst for Payment Reform — Health Plan RFI

  Want to know how health plans currently pay their doctors and hospitals and ... (CPR), will familiarize participants with a tool CPR developed for employers and other health care ... on a shared agenda for payment reform developed by the health care purchasers involved in CPR, the ...

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practices ; Hospitals are improving care from emergency department to bedside; ... the overall quality of health care in targeted communities, reduce racial and ethnic disparities and provide models for national reform. AF4Q asked the people who get care, give care and pay for care to ...

May 03,2011

PBS Affiliate Features SCPA Program

of chronic disease are the most frequent users of health care, accounting for 81% of all hospital ... Patient-Centered Care Ambulatory Care Care Across Settings ...

Mar 13,2014

Reporting Relative Resource Use in Puget Sound

href="http://www.pugetsoundhealthalliance.org/documents/puget_sound_health_alliance_resource_use_report_2011.pdf">resource use report which includes an analysis of the content of care for specific high-volume hospitalizations. The Alliance is introducing two components of value in health care: appropriateness and intensity. ... hospitalizations. The Alliance is introducing two components of value in health care: appropriateness and intensity. ...