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April 11, 2008 | Program Results Report
The University of Colorado Health Sciences Center examined the effects of five HMO case management programs on patients' compliance with discharge services and use of acute care services.
National Program
Expecting Success was a national program aimed at improving the quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and language disparities.
April 1, 2013 | Journal Article
Four Interdisciplinary Nursing Quality Research Initiative (INQRI) teams summarize their work to close the gaps in measuring quality of nursing care.
April 18, 2011 | Program Results Report
Ten hospitals throughout the country joined a collaborative learning network, developed strategies to improve the quality and accessibility of their language services, and tested them using five standardized performance improvement measures.
April 6, 2011 | Program Results Report
As the project manager at the University of Michigan said: "We could just grab the phone when patients came in who spoke languages for which we don't have an interpreter."
March 24, 2010 | Story
Duke University Hospital and the health system wanted to improve cardiac care for African-American and Latino populations by identifying and analyzing disparities and developing tools that would better serve them.
March 24, 2010 | Story
A multidisciplinary team redesigned Montefiore Medical Center's patient registration system to collect data on race, ethnicity and preferred language, and developed a procedure to provide faster treatment for heart attack patients.
March 24, 2010 | Story
Del Sol Medical Center improved its patient chart review and discharge processes, and enhanced its heart failure center, with support from Expecting Success.
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
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.