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Maternal Health: Improving Quality Outcomes
Designing care that improves quality and patient safety contributes to improved pregnancy outcomes. These AHA resources highlight success stories of hospitals and health systems that focus on models of care aimed at improving their maternal care quality and outcomes.
AHA’s Quality Exchange: Collaborate to Drive Excellence in Quality Improvement | Center
A peer-driven initiative focused on fostering meaningful improvements in patient care and organizational performance.
Top 4 Takeaways from New AHA Safety Insights Report
The newly released Insights Report, “Improvement in Safety Culture Linked to Better Patient and Staff Outcomes,” highlights progress on additional outcome measures of patient safety including some that reflect the ongoing work led by nurses to protect patients.
Serving Older Emergency Patients with Extra TLC
Hospitals large and small recognize the value of special protocols and services for older patients who seek emergency care.
From Pro Forma to Proactive
As hospitals buy physician practices, board compensation oversight must shift into high gear.
Physicians Key in Value-Driven Environment
Executive and board support is needed for physician leadership that lasts. Collaborative leadership with physicians will be essential for hospitals to successfully create and maintain agile organizations that can compete in the rapidly changing healthcare landscape.
Physician Whiplash
Board support is essential in helping doctors take on and succeed in leadership roles. The emerging health care environment requires far more physician leadership than has been needed in the past. But there is a natural barrier to physicians who answer the call to lead, and it is best described as “physician whiplash.”
Physician-Hospital Alignment: Meeting on What Matters
The evolving U.S. health care system will demand more standardization, reduced variation in outcomes and lower costs, necessitating new care delivery methods. A variety of models may emerge but physicians are the one constant to any emerging care paradigm, making hospital physician alignment imperative.
Physician Compact
A physician compact outlines the organization's and physician's responsibilities. Reprinted with permission from Virginia Mason Medical Center.
Perils of Payment
The complexity around physician compensation demands defined, layered board oversight.