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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
Improving Health Equity Through Data Collection AND Use: A Guide for Hospital Leaders
March 01, 2011 - This guide explores key strategies that hospitals have adopted to collect race, ethnicity, and primary language data about their patients and use the data in efforts to overcome disparities in care.
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
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
A Guide to Financing Strategies for Hospitals - With Special Consideration for Smaller Hospitals
December 01, 2010 - This guide explores seven strategies that can help hospitals achieve the best possible capital access.
Hand Hygiene Project: Best Practices from Hospitals Participating in the Joint Commission Center for Transforming Healthcare Project
November 01, 2010 - This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve work processes and identify causes and targeted solutions for failure to clean hands.
Pulling the Pieces Together: Consolidation and Integration in Health Care Systems
October 08, 2010 - In a growing number of communities, market imperatives and consumer demands have become the driving force behind the centralization and consolidation of service lines in hospital health systems.
Enhancing the Board's Role in Quality (2007)
October 08, 2010 - Aimed to develop practical knowledge about how to enhance the board's role in quality, the report identifies three purposes for board involvement in quality.
Performance Measures for Health Care Systems
October 08, 2010 - An overview of performance measures and their successful implementation provides a valuable template for enhancing any health care organization's performance measurement programs.
Handheld Computers in Clinical Practice: Implementation Strategies and Challenges
October 08, 2010 - New insight and strategies can help health care executives leverage their investment in information technologies while enhancing the value of those investments at the clinical care delivery level.
Leadership Development in Health Care: Practical Strategies for Health Care Organizations
October 08, 2010 - Practical information regarding the leadership development process for all levels of health care managers will help health care organizations identify, recruit, and retain future leaders.
Making and Enacting Strategic Decisions in Hospitals and Health Care Delivery Systems: Orchestrating Standardization
October 08, 2010 - As hospitals strive to achieve savings by standardizing product SKUs and/or prices, some achieve more success than others. What factors are important in the successful management of physician preference items?
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.
Speaking Out
September 01, 2010 - Speaking Out
Tools for Exceptional Governance
September 01, 2010 - Tools for Exceptional Governance
A New Era for Health Reform
August 25, 2010 - A New Era for Health Reform
Evidence-Based Management
August 25, 2010 - Evidence-Based Management
264 Years Is Too Long
August 25, 2010 - 264 Years Is Too Long
Diverse and Dynamic Leaders
August 25, 2010 - Diverse and Dynamic Leaders
Supporting Change
August 25, 2010 - Supporting Change
Making Widespread Changes -Gently -in Health Care
August 25, 2010 - Making Widespread ChangesGentlyin Health Care
2007 Blue Ribbon Panel Report
August 25, 2010 - 2007 Blue Ribbon Panel Report
Quick Change
August 25, 2010 - Quick Change
2009 Blue Ribbon Panel Report
August 25, 2010 - 2009 Blue Ribbon Panel Report
Ensuring Global Human Resources for Health
August 25, 2010 - Ensuring Global Human Resources for Health
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
Health Care Leader Action Guide on Implementation of Electronic Health Records
July 01, 2010 - Health Care Leader Action Guide on Implementation of Electronic Health Records
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.
Using Workforce Practices to Drive Quality Improvement: A Guide for Hospitals
June 01, 2010 - Using Workforce Practices to Drive Quality Improvement: A Guide for Hospitals
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.
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.
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.
An Empirical Taxonomy of Hospital Governing Board Roles
January 01, 2008 - Objective.
Characteristics of Effective Boards
January 01, 2006 - Throughout the nation, increasing attention is being devoted to the performance of governing boards in the health care field and other sectors.
Hospital Governance: Initial Summary Report of 2005 Survey of CEOs and Board Chairs
January 01, 2005 - HRET surveyed US hospital CEOs and their Board chairs for a comprehensive look at how Boards operate.
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