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2012 TRUST Award Recipient
HRET Announces 2012 TRUST Award Recipient - Maureen Bisognano. Learn more.
AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship
The AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Leadership Fellowship, now entering its eleventh year, is a transformative learning experience dedicated to preparing the next generation of patient safety, quality, and performance improvement leaders. click here.
Health Services Research
Now available: a collection of manuscripts from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Clinical Scholars that examine and inform the health reform process. The special issue aims to address the critically important topic - how to inform health policy through research. Read more.
Research Highlights:This guide provides hospital leaders with a snapshot of hospitals’ current readiness to participate in an ACO, as well as a tool with which to gauge their own organizations’ relative preparedness for ACO participation.
Read moreTo meet patient needs in the current market, hospitals have traditionally focused their efforts on caring for individuals and personalizing care for each person admitted to their facility.
Read moreThis guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organizational performance. It highlights cultural elements necessary to build a firm foundation for HCAHPS success. Once these foundational elements have been considered, the guide outlines a 5-step approach to using HCAHPS effectively to improve the patient experience, quality and safety.
Read more What's New:The share of hospitals that have at least a basic electronic health record system increased to 26.6% in 2011 – a significant jump from the 15.1% of hospitals with EHRs in 2010.
Read moreThe toolkit has been updated to reflect recent federal legislation requiring the collection of sex and disability information. It also provides hospitals, health systems, clinics, and health plans information and resources for systematically collecting.Read more
Health Care System Transformation Fellowship is an intensive six-month program that provides participants with a road map of how to design and plan for new care delivery and payment models, such as medical homes, bundled payments and clinical ...
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