Critical Access
Sinai Health System, Chicago, 鈥淗elping Adults Breathe and Thrive: A Healthy Homes Approach to Improving Respiratory Health of Adults with Asthma.鈥 In one year, the program reduced asthma-related emergency department visits by 66 PERCENT, hospitalizations by 57 percent and participants' daytime鈥
Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause hospital readmission from 10 percent in 2012 to 4 percent in 2013 to 3.5 percent in 2014. This 25-bed critical access hospital coordinated care across the continuum and created a committee with 21鈥
In order to develop a durable systemic change, one Keene, N.H., program is making the healthy choice the easy choice. Turn a New Leaf, part of Healthy Monadnock 2020 and in cooperation with Cheshire Medical Center/Dartmouth Hitchcock-Keene, provides organizations with the tools, technical鈥
This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to help they achieve the Triple Aim of health care. These hosptials ensure their application of HIT is driving value, connecting patients and physicians and even moving outside of the hospital鈥
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology coordinates nationwide efforts that support the use of certified health IT and promote the adoption of national standards and the interoperable exchange of health information. Through the recent efforts of federal programs鈥
This series focuses on the IHI's main topic areas of:
Improvement Capability
Person- and Family-centered Care
Patient Safety
Quality, Cost and Value
Triple Aim for Populations
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The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services anticipates that the July update to the Hospital Compare website will include performance data reported voluntarily by critical access hospitals, the agency told AHA, quickly responding to an AHA letter expressing 鈥渄eep disappointment鈥 that the鈥