Emergency Department to Medical Home: Using Health Information Technology for Community-Wide Transition Care Coordination for Medically Underserved Populations (Webinar)

care providers. The Milwaukee Health Care Partnership is a public/private consortium of five ... County and City health agencies.  Its mission is to improve health care for underserved populations in Milwaukee County, with focus on three priority areas:  coverage, access and care ...

Equity in Heart Failure Care

five times the number of hospitalizations and five times the cost. To tackle this issue, TMC, part of ... Chronic Care” program, a comprehensive approach for improving HF quality of life and mitigating social barriers so patients can take advantage of care offered to them. A nurse and social worker support these ...

Sep 14,2011

Reducing Readmissions August 2011 Quality Forum: Engaging Nursing Homes and Home Health Agencies as Community Partners in Reducing Readmissions

Hospital and Tuality Community Hospital will discuss the strategies and tools each hospital is using to ... Quality at Massachusetts Senior Care Foundation, will also present the INTERACT (Interventions to Reduce Acute Care Transitions) program which is designed to improve the early identification, assessment, ...

Engaging Patients to Improve Health and Health Care

webinar will explore lessons and insights from Aligning Forces for Quality on how hospitals, primary care ... in their health care are more likely to stay healthy, while those who lack the skills and confidence to manage their own care often require more of it and incur up to 21 percent higher health care ...

Using Social Media in Health Care: Why it's Our Moral Responsibility

In today's challenging health care environment, hospitals, clinics, and providers need to deliver quality patient care that creates value and improves outcomes. Health care providers must ... environment, hospitals, clinics, and providers need to deliver quality patient care that creates value and ...

Protecting Hearts

help patients get the care they need through a collaborative approach. Eight Maine hospitals in the ... Care Across Settings Wed, 2013-07-03 (All day) Patients often leave the hospital uneducated and ...

Jul 03,2013

Composite Measures: A New Gold Standard in Diabetes Care

United States, both in terms of direct costs (such as hospitalizations, medical care, and treatment ... care is as complex as the disease itself. Many different indicators of health should be monitored on a ... Quality Assurance, a nonprofit dedicated to transforming health care, along with the Robert Wood Johnson ...

Feb 28,2014

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Nov 04,2011

Shortening the Path to Better Care and Lower Costs

primary care have been diabetes, high blood pressure, and heart failure, all common cardiovascular conditions that can be well controlled with care delivered outside a hospital. New data show that Better ... Quality (AF4Q) program, led by Better Health Greater Cleveland, is that better care leads to better health ...

Oct 30,2013

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 ("the health care reform law") ... Wood Johnson Foundation highlights examples of public reporting websites that have caused hospitals and physicians to improve their practice patterns and the quality of care they provide. The Wisconsin ...

Oct 01,2013