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February 11, 2009 | Program Result
The Austin/Travis County Health and Human Services Department used its InformationLinks grant to strengthen its ties to the Indigent Care Collaboration (ICC), an alliance of safety net providers serving a three-county region of central Texas.
July 11, 2011 | Program Result
Transforming Care at the Bedside (TCAB) was a national initiative to improve hospital patient care and the hospital work environment by empowering front-line nurses to implement innovative new practices on their units.
April 18, 2011 | Program Result
The overarching objective of the Dartmouth Atlas is to report local and regional variation in the performance of U.S. health care to policymakers and health systems and to provide interpretation of unwarranted variation that can guide policy.
April 18, 2011 | Program Result
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.
December 4, 2009 | Program Result
The Center for Health Design and the Georgia Institute of Technology School of Architecture developed an Evidence-Based Design Accreditation and Certification program, to accredit design professionals who use evidence-based design for new hospitals.
November 10, 2008 | Program Result
From 2003 to 2006, a coalition of six domestic violence agencies in the Kansas City area worked with local hospitals and clinics to provide assistance to patients who were victims of domestic violence.
October 6, 2008 | Program Result
Investigators led a multisite study designed to explore how nurses use their time and whether the design of their workplace has an impact on patient care.
November 1, 2000 | Program Result
The National Public Health and Hospital Institute in Washington examined the current status of large urban hospitals and the impact on them as a result of recent changes in the U.S. health care system.
December 1, 2000 | Program Result
Emory University School of Medicine assessed the prevalence of inadequate health literacy among patients presenting for outpatient acute care in two urban public hospitals, one in Atlanta and one in Los Angeles.
January 1, 2008 | Program Result
Researchers at the Georgia Institute of Technology convened a conference to develop a research agenda on the role of health care facility design and patient safety, patient and family experiencem and nurse/staff working conditions.