For more than a decade, RWJF has sponsored a variety of hospital-based initiatives designed to improve the quality of care provided. These efforts have engaged staff members at all levels within a hospital to measure and improve the quality and safety of patient care, as well as help spread replicable strategies across the country.
In this Reform in Action brief, lessons from Aligning Forces for Quality's (AF4Q) Hospital Quality Network and Transforming Care at the Bedside prorgram demonstrate how hospitals can develop, test, implement, and spread quality improvement strategies among their hospitals and beyond.
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Research has shown that 70 to 90 percent of errors in hospitals result from badly designed systems of care. Close to 40 percent of all unanticipated hospital deaths occur on medical/surgical units.
In hospitals across the nation, teams of doctors, nurses, other frontline staff, and administrators are working with patients and other stakeholders to improve the quality of hospital care.
Research shows that the quality of care many people receive in the hospital is not as good as it could be. Being an engaged and informed patient can improve the quality of your hospital care.
Michael Weaver, MD, FACEP, FCC, Vice President of Clinical Diversity at St. Luke’s Health System in Kansas City, MO talks about how St. Luke's has addressed language services for its patients and why collaboration is important for hospital-based quality improvement.
RWJF Senior Program Officer Susan Mende discusses Aligning Forces' efforts to innovate and improve the quality of hospital care across the country.
Aligning Forces for Quality (AF4Q) shares lessons and resources from its efforts to elevate the quality of health care in 16 regions around the country in a series of Reform in Action suites:
