Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care
National Program
Expecting Success was a national program aimed at improving the quality of cardiac care while reducing racial, ethnic and language disparities.
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Patient Discharge Instruction Record
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.
Collecting Data to Identify Disparities and Measure Heart Care Quality
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.
Improving Heart Care through Better Data and Communications
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.
Combining Better Systems and Intensive Patient Education for Better Heart Care
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.
Heart Failure Encounter Form
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.