Care Coordination Resources

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  Early Learnings from the Bundled Payment Acute Care Episode Demonstration Project

  July 01, 2011 - An overview and summary of lessons learned from the current CMS pilot project, the CMS Acute Care Episode Demonstration Project, that is testing the effect of bundling Part A and B payments for episodes of care improve coordination, quality and efficiency



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  Striving for Top Box: Hospitals Increasing Quality and Efficiency

  April 01, 2011 - This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a variety of topics including care coordination, health and wellness, equity of care, and new payment and care delivery models.



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  Health Care Leader Action Guide: Understanding and Managing Variation

  February 01, 2011 - The guide includes practical steps to understanding and managing variation and a list of best practices and case studies as examples and resources for hospital leaders to use for implementing key interventions



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  Call to Action: Creating a Culture of Health

  January 01, 2011 - The AHA's Long-Range Policy Committee developed a comprehensive report, A Call to Action: Creating a Culture of Health. It highlights current practices that hospitals use today with their own employees, gives examples of promising practices, and provides



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  Designing A 21st Century Approach to Primary Care

  October 13, 2010 - A new vision of primary care-one built on a clinically and economically sound foundationoffers substantial benefits to both physicians and their patients.



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  Organizational and Clinical Factors Influencing Use of Clinical Practice Guidelines

  October 08, 2010 - Clinical practice guidelines can be effective toward reaching common system goals of improved patient care management. Identifying and overcoming institutional and operational barriers can help ensure the successful implementation of guidelines.



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  Living with Diabetes Project

  October 08, 2010 - The Living with Diabetes Project examines the economic impact and effectiveness of two technology-based programs aimed at helping patients with type 2 diabetes manage their health.



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  Factors Impacting the Implementation, Transfer and Retention of Patient Safety Best Practices in North American Acute Care Hospitals: Assessing Organizational Readiness for Practice Change

  October 08, 2010 - Understanding an organization's capacity for change can result in more successful implementation of patient safety best practices.



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  AHA Research Synthesis Report: Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH)

  September 01, 2010 - This synthesis report presents an overview of the Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH), including key features, discussion of federal, state, and private sector medical home models, and considerations for hospitals interested in developing a PCMH.



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  Rapid HIV Testing

  September 01, 2010 - Rapid HIV Testing



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  Ensuring Global Human Resources for Health

  August 25, 2010 - Ensuring Global Human Resources for Health



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  Maintaining Quality of Life

  August 25, 2010 - Maintaining Quality of Life



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  For Emergency's Sake

  August 25, 2010 - For Emergency's Sake



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  Collecting Data to Improve Patient Care

  August 25, 2010 - Collecting Data to Improve Patient Care



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  Connecting with Patients

  August 25, 2010 - Connecting with Patients



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  Variation in Profitability under Medicare: Emergency Department (ED) vs Scheduled Admissions

  August 19, 2010 - Variation in Profitability under Medicare: Emergency Department (ED) vs Scheduled Admissions



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  Patient and Family Engagement

  August 19, 2010 - Patient and Family Engagement



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  Accountable Care Organizations

  August 19, 2010 - Accountable Care Organizations



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  Early Lessons from the Bundled Payment Acute Care Episode Demonstration Project

  July 21, 2010 - Early Lessons from the Bundled Payment Acute Care Episode Demonstration Project



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  AHA Research Synthesis Report: Accountable Care Organizations

  June 01, 2010 - This guide presents ideas to consider in developing an ACO and reviews the key competencies that are needed in order to be an accountable ACO.



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  A Guide to Achieving High Performance in Multi-Hospital Health System

  March 01, 2010 - The guide provides numerous tools that leaders can use to help drive performance improvement regardless if they are part of a health system; the lessons are transferrable to all hospitals.



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  AHA Research Synthesis Report: Bundled Payment

  March 01, 2010 - An AHA Research Synthesis Report presents an overview of bundled payment, including evidence of its impact in the public and private sector, as well as questions that must be considered.



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  Health Care Leader Action Guide to Reduce Avoidable Readmissions

  January 01, 2010 - Reducing avoidable hospital readmissions is an opportunity to improve quality and reduce costs in the health care system.



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  Where Do I Send Thee? Does Physician-Ownership Affect Referral Patterns To Ambulatory Surgery Centers?

  January 01, 2008 - For more than three decades, Congress has struggled with potential financial conflicts of interest when physicians share in financial gain from nonprofessional services.



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  The Profitability of Medicare Admissions Based on Source of Admission

  January 01, 2008 - Objectives: This study investigates whether admissions from the emergency department (ED) have lower dollar margins than elective admissions under Medicare and explores two possible reasons for differences in margins.



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  The Struggle to Pay for Health Care

  January 01, 2007 - A Kaiser/HRET survey finds that while premium increases slowed this year, they're still rising at a rate more than double that of inflation.



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  A Worldwide Crisis

  January 01, 2006 - A shortage of health care workers disproportionately affects developing countries, but it endangers us all.



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  Improving Care in Physician Offices

  January 01, 2006 - A new tool helps individual practices evaluate the safety and quality of their care



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  The Disappearing Hospital Emergency Department

  January 01, 2006 - A survey finds that as short-term, general hospitals close, the number of U.



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  Overcoming the Language Barrier

  January 01, 2006 - A survey examines how providers meet the language needs of patients with limited English proficiency.



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  Payment Reform Health Care Disparities Influenced by Where Minorities Seek Care

  January 01, 2006 - Study after study has documented that differences exist between the quality of health care received by minority patients and nonminority patients.



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  Hospital Capital Financing in the Era of Quality and Safety

  January 01, 2005 - HOSPITAL CAPITAL FINANCING IN THE ERA OF QUALITY AND SAFETY: STRATEGIES AND PRIORITIES FOR THE FUTURE -- A SURVEY OF CEOs



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  Speaking Out

  January 01, 2005 - Hospitals recognized for improving patient-centered communication



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  Who, When and How: The Current State of Race, Ethnicity and Primary Language Data Collection in Hospitals

  January 01, 2004 - According to the Institute of Medicine, standardized data collection is critical to understanding and eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health care.



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  Closing The Gap

  January 01, 2003 - A new consortium seeks to end health care disparities