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July 1, 2001 | Program Result
In 1999, the American Heart Association sponsored the first in a series of annual conferences on measuring quality of care in the treatment of cardiovascular disease and stroke.
June 1, 2008 | Toolkit
An off-site, nurse-led heart failure clinic was created to help heart failure patients better control and self-manage their disease post-hospitalization.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit/Video
The current race and ethnicity categories used by the Office of Management and Budget are the recommended standard, yet given the United States' increasingly diverse population, the Expecting Success program used an expanded list of categories.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit
Hospitals that participated in Expecting Success reported monthly data on 20 cardiac care quality indicators, all analyzed by patient race, ethnicity and language.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit
Staff combined information from three existing order sets into a single, comprehensive cardiology admission order set to reduce provider confusion and help the hospital reach regular compliance rates of 90 to 100% for evidence-based cardiac measures.
June 4, 2008 | Toolkit
Sinai-Grace Hospital in Detroit, Mich., developed a systemwide universal discharge instruction form, merging general discharge instructions with cardiac-specific discharge instructions for patients with acute myocardial infarction or heart failure.
June 5, 2008 | Toolkit/Video
Ten hospitals with racially and ethnically diverse patient populations participated in Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation aimed at improving quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and language disparities. All 10 hospitals improved the quality of care being provided to their heart failure and heart attack patients.
November 1, 2007 | News Release
Urban Indian Health Commission reveals that urban Indians face a high incidence of heart disease, diabetes and depression, yet have minimal access to quality health care.
April 17, 2008 | Story
"Disruptive innovations are technologies, processes or business models that bring to market products or services that are more affordable and simpler to use than what is currently available."
June 4, 2008 | Story
Staff created new positions for quality improvement facilitators, called patient care analysts, to help providers improve their practice patterns and use of evidence-based interventions.