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The Journey to Achieve Health Care Equity: The New Joint …

WEBAlmost 20 years ago, the Institute of Medicine (now the National Academy of Medicine) published Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in …

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Leveraging Health Information Technology to Meet The Joint …

WEBInova Kellar Center (IKC) is a large community-based provider of behavioral health services for youth and families in the suburban Mid-Atlantic United States and …

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Behavioral Health Integration in Acute Medical Settings: An …

WEBDiscussion about integrating behavioral health into medical care settings has, to date, focused on primary care.1,2 This may be a sensible place to start, as primary care …

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Achieving Health Care Equity Requires a Systems Approach

WEBOf all the challenges facing health care, achieving health care equity may be the most complex and daunting. Hundreds of studies have documented suboptimal care …

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Leveraging Quality Improvement to Achieve Equity in Health Care

WEBAlthough most literature on disparities in health care has focused on racial and ethnic minorities, specifically blacks and to a lesser extent Hispanics/Latinos, for the …

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Hospital Planning for Contingency and Crisis Conditions: Crisis

WEBCOVID-19 placed unprecedented strain on the US health care system and revealed critical deficits in resources and planning. Beginning with a shortage of …

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A Road Map for Advancing the Practice of Respect in Health Care: …

WEBMost health care organizations' efforts to reduce harm focus on physical harm, but other forms of harm are both prevalent and important. These “nonphysical” …

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Building Patient Trust in Hospitals: A Combination of Hospital …

WEBIn the United States, trust in health care institutions is considerably lower than it is for one's regular clinician. A 2018 national survey found that only 20% of adults …

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Hospital at Home: Setting a Regulatory Course to Ensure Safe, …

WEBHospital at Home (HaH) is a patient-centric care delivery model that provides hospital-level care in a patient's home as a substitute for care provided in the …

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Positive Outcomes in a Virtual Partial Hospitalization Program

WEBPartial hospitalization programs (PHPs) are intensive outpatient mental health programs. During the COVID-19 pandemic, our PHP was converted from an in …

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Handoffs and Teamwork: A Framework for Care Transition …

WEBHandoffs occur frequently in the medical domain and are associated with up to 80% of medical errors. Although research has progressed, handoffs largely remain …

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Using a Healthcare Matrix to Assess Patient Care in Terms of Aims …

WEBIn 2001, the Institute of Medicine (IOM) recommended six Aims for Improvement; the dimensions of quality describe a health care system that is safe, timely, effective, …

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The Roles of Government in Improving Health Care Quality and …

WEBDiscussions surrounding the role of government have been and continue to be a favorite American pastime. A framework is provided for understanding the 10 roles that …

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The Comprehensive Care Plan: A Patient-Centered, …

WEBComprehensive care plans are dynamic documents maintained by an interdisciplinary team that contain specific, actionable information for clinicians and staff …

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Key Issues in Transforming Health Care Organizations for Quality: …

WEBThe 2001 Institute of Medicine (IOM) report highlighted the need for transformation of the U.S. health care system. This rigorous qualitative evaluation of transformational change …

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A Practical Guide to Failure Mode and Effects Analysis in Health …

WEBFailure Mode and Effects Analysis (FMEA) is a proactive risk assessment tool used to identify potential vulnerabilities in complex, high-risk processes and to generate remedial …

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A Visual Dashboard to Monitor Restraint Use in Hospitalized …

WEBA total of 540 distinct restraint events occurred during the study period. Highest restraint episode counts occurred during evening shift (54.8%), compared to …

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The Joint Commission's New and Revised Workplace Violence …

WEBWorkplace violence poses a significant threat to the health, safety, and well-being of health care workers1 and has negative implications for their productivity,2 …

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Improving Communication with Patients with Limited English …

WEBPatients with limited English proficiency (LEP) continue to face health care disparities.1 There are legal standards for language assistance services to enhance …

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Using a Hospitalwide Performance Improvement Process for …

WEBTHE JOINT COMMISSION Article-at-a-Glance Background: Decreases in length of hospital stay have increased pressure on staff to provide appro- priate patient education.

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Changing Systems, Changing Cultures: Reducing Pressure Ulcers in

WEBPressure ulcers (PUs) are a serious and complex health care concern that require a multifaceted approach. A recent study reports an overall prevalence in the United States …

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Combined Proactive Risk Assessment: Unifying Proactive and …

WEBReactive risk assessments (RRAs) such as incident reporting and root cause analysis (RCA), as well as proactive risk assessments (PRAs) such as failure mode and effects …

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