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The Journey to Achieve Health Care Equity: The New Joint …

WebAlmost 20 years ago, the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) published Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in …

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Building Patient Trust in Hospitals: A Combination of Hospital …

WebIn the United States, trust in health care institutions is considerably lower than it is for one's regular clinician. A 2018 national survey found that only 20% of adults …

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Leveraging Quality Improvement to Achieve Equity in Health Care

WebAlthough most literature on disparities in health care has focused on racial and ethnic minorities, specifically blacks and to a lesser extent Hispanics/Latinos, for the …

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Hospital Planning for Contingency and Crisis Conditions: Crisis

WebCOVID-19 placed unprecedented strain on the US health care system and revealed critical deficits in resources and planning. Beginning with a shortage of …

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A Road Map for Advancing the Practice of Respect in …

WebMost health care organizations' efforts to reduce harm focus on physical harm, but other forms of harm are both prevalent and important. These “nonphysical” …

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An Infrastructure to Provide Safer, Higher-Quality, and More …

WebThe rapid expansion and prompt widescale adoption of telehealth during the COVID-19 pandemic resulted in telehealth practice variations across health care settings and has implications for patient safety, health equity, and quality of care. Telehealth is part of the public health infrastructure, and health care stakeholders have an opportunity to …

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Addressing Veteran Health-Related Social Needs: How Joint …

WebThe Joint Commission recently named reduction of health care disparities and improvement of health care equity as quality and safety priorities (Leadership [LD] …

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The Urgent Need for the Age-Friendly Health Systems Movement

Web) to create master plans on aging. Additional efforts are underway in health systems and public health agencies in Michigan communities, where, starting in October 2023, the partnerships will develop an “Age-Friendly Public Health System” that will complement their efforts to install an Age-Friendly Health System across the state. A …

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Leveraging Health Information Technology to Meet The …

WebInova Kellar Center (IKC) is a large community-based provider of behavioral health services for youth and families in the suburban Mid-Atlantic United States and …

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Achieving Health Care Equity Requires a Systems Approach

WebOf all the challenges facing health care, achieving health care equity may be the most complex and daunting. Hundreds of studies have documented suboptimal care …

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Social Determinants of Health Screening and Management: …

WebIn October 2022 a multisite social determinants of health screening initiative was expanded across seven emergency departments of a large, urban hospital system. …

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Positive Outcomes in a Virtual Partial Hospitalization Program

WebPartial hospitalization programs (PHPs) are intensive outpatient mental health programs. During the COVID-19 pandemic, our PHP was converted from an in …

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A Practical Guide to Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in Health …

WebFailure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a proactive risk assessment tool used to identify potential vulnerabilities in complex, high-risk processes and to generate remedial …

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Hospital at Home: Setting a Regulatory Course to Ensure Safe, …

WebHospital at Home (HaH) is a patient-centric care delivery model that provides hospital-level care in a patient's home as a substitute for care provided in the traditional acute care hospital. The rationale for HaH development emerged from the recognition that the hospital is often not a preferred or an ideal care environment, particularly for older …

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The Joint Commission's New and Revised Workplace Violence …

WebWorkplace violence poses a significant threat to the health, safety, and well-being of health care workers1 and has negative implications for their productivity,2 …

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Introducing the National Patient Safety Goals Department: Sharing

WebConsistently achieving safety in health care may be an elusive goal. Patient care, regardless of setting, is composed of thousands of multistep processes and complex systems operating both within and across highly specialized services and departments. If only we were able to predict the next serious medical error, we would proactively tailor …

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The Roles of Government in Improving Health Care Quality and …

WebDiscussions surrounding the role of government have been and continue to be a favorite American pastime. A framework is provided for understanding the 10 roles that …

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Using a Healthcare Matrix to Assess Patient Care in Terms of Aims …

WebIn 2001, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommended six Aims for Improvement; the dimensions of quality describe a health care system that is safe, timely, effective, …

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Better Off Doing Falls Prevention “With” Our Patients Rather Than …

WebPatient falls have been one of the most common adverse events encountered in hospitals for several decades.1 Despite this, identification of effective strategies for the prevention of in-hospital falls has been largely elusive. Early trials (pre-2004) seeking to prevent falls focused on single intervention approaches, but small sample sizes limited certainty in the …

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The Comprehensive Care Plan: A Patient-Centered, …

WebComprehensive care plans are dynamic documents maintained by an interdisciplinary team that contain specific, actionable information for clinicians and staff …

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Implementing Routine Health Literacy Assessment in Hospital and …

WebPatients with inadequate health literacy often have poorer health outcomes and increased utilization and costs. The Institute of Medicine has recommended that health literacy …

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Improving Communication with Patients with Limited English …

WebPatients with limited English proficiency (LEP) continue to face health care disparities.1 There are legal standards for language assistance services to enhance communication.2,3 However, underutilization of such services, reliance on ad hoc interpretation, and getting by with providers’ non-English language (NEL) skills remain …

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