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Improving Quality: How a Hospital Reduced Medication Errors

September 24, 2008 | Story

Leadership of the nonprofit hospital and its parent corporation, McLeod Health, embraced a plan to automate the medication delivery process, adding safeguards against both prescribing and delivery mistakes.

Patient Experience of Care: Inventory of Improvement Resources

June 13, 2013 | Issue Brief

This inventory lists a variety of free resources that are available to support health care organizations in determining what they need to do to improve patient experience and how to implement those improvements.

Alabama Helps Addicted Adolescents Recover from Substance Abuse with Continuing Care

November 22, 2011 | Program Results Report

Alabama was one of 12 states participating in Advancing Recovery: State and Provider Partnerships for Quality Addiction Treatment. The state joined with three adolescent service providers to implement continuing care as their evidence-based practice.

Access to Care Impacts Hospitalization Rates for Ambulatory Care Sensitive Conditions

April 30, 2001 | Program Results Report

The University of California studied access to primary care in selected communities to assess whether hospitalization rates for certain chronic conditions typically managed by outpatient care are valid and useful measures of community access to care.

Disharmony of Inpatient and Outpatient Services Hampers Treatment of Schizophrenics

August 1, 2001 | Program Results Report

From 1991 to 1998, researchers from the Institute for Health, Health Care Policy, and Aging Research at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, studied the care of schizophrenia patients who are covered by Medicaid in New York State.

If Consumers and Purchasers Could Compare Health Care Quality, What Would It Do to Health Care?

June 10, 2013 | Program Results Report

The Consumer-Purchaser Disclosure Project promotes performance measurement as a tool to increase the transparency and accountability of the health care system, and advocates for more input from health care consumers and purchasers.

Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance

National Program

Program to help hospital and physician organizations dramatically improve patient outcomes by pursuing perfection in all of their major care processes.

Variations in Management of Common Inpatient Pediatric Illnesses

August 1, 2006 | Journal Article

There is a lack of data comparing the quality of care given by pediatricians who mainly practice in hospitals with the quality of care given by those who practice in the community. The purpose of this study was to assess whether pediatric hospitalis ...

Giving Shelter and Health Care to Homeless in Savannah, Ga.

December 1, 2005 | Program Results Report

Two competing hospital organizations - Memorial Health University Medical Center and St. Joseph's/Candler Hospital System - helped develop and support a health center and related shelter clinics.

Pursuing Perfection: Raising the Bar for Health Care Performance

December 12, 2011 | Program Results Report

Most of the seven health care organizations in this RWJF national program made "tremendous progress" in improving the quality of their care, however none reached the goal of organizational transformation to a fundamentally new health care model.

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