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- A Community’s Approach to Reducing Readmissions
of care and/or inefficient use of health care resources. That’s why hospitals, ambulatory care ... communities to help patients successfully transition from hospital care to home and reduce readmissions. ... (here) (Ambulatory Care, Care Across Settings, Consumer Engagement, Hospital Care, Measurement & ...
Oct 04,2011
- Illustrating Innovation Through Bright Spots
(Ambulatory Care, Care Across Settings, Consumer Engagement, Cost & Efficiency, Hospital Care, Measurement ... success in improving health care quality. We would welcome a clear solution to a challenge like ensuring equity in care. How much simpler it would be if one community could try on solutions until one fit, and ...
May 21,2012
- Talking About the Cost of Care With Your Patient
Patients and family members are becoming more sensitive to the cost of care as they bear a greater share of health care costs. Out-of-pocket costs are a worry for most patients and a substantial financial burden for a growing number with a variety of types of insurance plans. Controlling the cost of care is now ...
Mar 20,2015
- Partnering With Patients and Families to Design a Patient and Family-Centered Health Care System: Recommendations and Promising Practices
from a unique meeting convened by the Institute for Family-Centered Care in collaboration with the Institute for Healthcare Improvement. Highlighted are examples of best practices drawn from hospitals, ambulatory programs, medical and nursing schools, funders of health care, patient- and family-led ...
Aug 01,2011
- AF4Q 2012 May National Meeting TCAB Slidedeck
-None- (Hospital Care, Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB), Nursing) ... many successes of the Transforming Care at the Bedside or TCAB initiative was shared with the meeting ...
May 25,2012
- Measuring Patient Experience
(Hospital Care, Measurement & Reporting, Patient-Centered Care) ... This primer discusses the importance of measuring patient experience as part of health care quality improvement efforts. According to the Institute of Medicine, ensuring that care is patient-centered is one of ...
Apr 30,2012
- Care Across Settings: Challenges, Successes, and Opportunities
care is delivered (e.g., acute care hospitals, nursing homes). While focusing on care delivery ... settings, including within an acute care hospital, in an emergency department, at the doctor‘s office or ... In the decade since the Institute of Medicine identified quality deficiencies in the U.S. health care ...
Mar 14,2013
- Grand Junction, Colorado: How A Community Drew On Its Values To Shape A Superior Health System
Junction have fewer hospitalizations, shorter hospitalizations, and lower mortality rates after hospitalization than do Medicare patients in comparison hospitals. Effective, efficient care is delivered in Grand ... For the past decade, the high-quality, relatively low-cost health care delivered in Grand Junction, ...
Nov 29,2011
- Creating Regional Partnerships to Improve Care Transitions: Identifying and Recruiting Patients for Participation
Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that is coordinated across care settings. This brief highlights the ... so they can collaborate to reduce hospital readmissions. To read the rest of ...
Jul 15,2014
- Creating Regional Partnerships to Improve Care Transitions: Tracking Performance Metrics
Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) Alliances have implemented or are partnering in care transitions programs to ensure patient care that is coordinated across care settings. This brief highlights the ... so they can collaborate to reduce hospital readmissions. To read the rest of this ...
Jul 15,2014
