AF4Q Hospital Initiatives Press Release

improve the quality and safety of patient care in hospitals. The effort is part of Aligning Forces for Quality ... (ED) care. Hospitals participating in the effort were part of a virtual network where they ... “We know that in every community across America, hospitals are delivering both good health care and ...

Jul 25,2012

Why worry about hospital readmissions?

resources. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), hospitals are penalized when Medicare ... also care about the stress of repeated hospitalizations and time spent away from loved ones and ...   No one likes going to the hospital—especially if you were there just less than a month ...

Oct 02,2013

AF4Q Hospital Quality Network: December 2011 Quality Forum

and family-centered care offers to hospitals, clinicians, staff, patients, and families. As hospitals ... benefits that patient- and family-centered care offers to hospitals, clinicians, staff, patients, and ... strategies that have been successfully implemented in hospitals and offer suggestions for expanding patient- ...

AF4Q Hospital Quality Initiatives

    For 18 months, nearly 150 hospital teams participated in a prestigious national program to improve the quality and safety of patient care in hospitals. The effort is part of ... patient needs; and improved emergency department (ED) care. Hospitals participating in the effort ...

Jul 25,2012

AF4Q Hospital Quality Network July 2010 Informational Webinar

Type:  Webinar Hospitals interested in improving the quality of care they ... care provided in targeted communities, is offering hospital quality improvement tools and strategies to ... programs have helped transform the quality of care in their hospitals.   Find Agenda ...

Hospital Quality Network: September Quality Forum

Please join the entire Hospital Quality Network for a discussion on evidence-based transitional care ... effectiveness of care transitions at all points. Please join the entire Hospital Quality Network for a ... seamless transitions from the hospital to home, skilled nursing care or home health care. Juliana Tiongson, ...

Improving Hospital Readmission Rates

2013-08-07 (All day) Patients often leave the hospital uninformed and confused about how to care for themselves properly at home, ultimately causing them to be readmitted. The 4.4 million potentially preventable trips to the hospital add $30 billion to U.S. healthcare spending ...

Aug 07,2013

August | 2013—Moving Beyond "Widgets"

The way we pay for care impacts the way care is delivered. By paying for appropriate, preventive, and coordinated care, health care improves. Payment Reform—The Linchpin of Health Care Reform ...

Aug 05,2013

West Michigan and Detroit Hospitals Collaborate to Improve Language Services

Wed, 2011-09-07 (All day) Allegan General Hospital, from the West ... collect Race/Ethnicity/Language (R/E/L) data but in collaborating with St. Mary's Health Care in Grand Rapids (another Improving Language Services hospital) learned they were missing some components of ...

Sep 07,2011

experiences of 10 participating hospitals and showcases some of the proven practices that were implemented to improve the language services these health care organizations provide. The report includes performance ... in language services. It includes sections highlighting progress that the hospitals have made in ...

Aug 01,2011