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July 14, 2008 | Program Result Report
The Joint Commission on Accreditation of Healthcare Organizations developed a simulation training course to enable its surveyors to recognize system vulnerabilities that threaten patient safety and the quality of care.
January 1, 2006 | Toolkit
Symbols help patients with limited English find their way.
December 1, 2011 | Program Result Report
Researchers at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine applied a step-by-step approach used to dramatically reduce aviation fatalities to improve the use of two devices that account for a disproportionate share of medical errors in hospitals.
January 29, 2013 | Grantee
Evaluating the impact of green initiatives on patient and worker health.
November 10, 2009 | Program Result Report
Investigators with the Plexus Institute developed a pilot program at six hospitals to control and reduce the rate of infections of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), one of the most virulent hospital-acquired infections in the United States.
May 15, 2013 | Story/Video/Infographic
The What's Next Health series features leading thinkers and visionaries. danah boyd—social scientist and high priestess of Internet friendship—challenges our assumptions and discusses what this means for health.
January 27, 2011 | Program Result Report
The Health Insurance Reform Project advanced the development of a rapid learning health system - involving millions of health records in searchable national databases - to fill knowledge gaps about health care and develop better health care policies.
August 1, 1998 | Program Result Report
Helping Hands, Inc., a nonprofit organization affiliated with the Boston University School of Medicine, piloted shared medical interpretation services for non-English speaking patients in health care institutions in New York, Massachusetts and Connecticut.
December 14, 2005 | Toolkit
Using symbols for health care signage can successfully meet the wayfinding needs of patients that speak hundreds of different languages. This workbook is designed for health care facilities and graphic designers interested in learning about and usin ...
March 25, 2013 | Program Result Report
From 2008 to 2012, Health Care Without Harm worked to embed best practices for environmental sustainability into health care and to create a business plan for Practice Greenhealth, which has hospital and business members.