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3-Part Care Pathway Addresses Delirium During Hospitalization
Age-Friendly health system, Hartford Hospital, and its ADAPT program is the subject of this Health Leaders article and includes a related IHI blog post, Delirium Prevention and Treatment: How to Improve Care and Avoid Unnecessary Costs.
Online Check-ins Help Urgent-Care Clinics Manage Patient Throughput
Commentary from Don Goldmann is included in this Modern Healthcare article on the use of online check-in tools for urgent care. Don commented on the fact that getting more patients into urgent care can create significant cost savings for both health ca…
‘Good Death’: Choosing How to Live and How to Die
IHI’s Conversation Project is highlighted in this WebMD Magazine article on end-of-life conversations.
WIHI: Black Women and Maternal Care: Redesigning for Safety, Dignity, and Respect
August 8, 2019 | With a significant rise in maternal deaths in the United States, how can providers partner with community groups to design respectul, dignified pregnancy experiences?
Four Steps for Developing Reliable Processes
Creating and sustaining reliable processes to ensure health care quality and patient safety requires thoughtful planning and execution. This checklist of four steps will help ensure your systems are designed with reliability in mind.
WIHI: Aim High for Equity in the Health Care Workforce
July 18, 2019 | How can health systems take action to improve workforce equity?
Retail Health Clinics Adapt Care to Older Patients
Next Avenue published a story in its series on Age-Friendly Health Care. The piece focuses on retail health clinics and efforts underway at CVS, Walgreens, and Kroger’s Little Clinic to improve care for older adults, shining a light on the CVS Minute C…
IHI CEO: Maternal Mortality Should be Bigger Priority for Hospital Leaders
Derek Feeley’s recent Line of Sight blog post on maternal mortality was the subject of this Becker’s Hospital Review article. The article summarizes the key takeaways for hospital leaders.
Advancing Equity in Health Systems by Addressing Racial Justice
This article by IHI staff centers on the need to set explicit aims, build coalitions, and flatten hierarchies in order to strengthen healthcare’s role in undoing systems of oppression.
Building a Better Death, One Conversation at a Time
This JAMA article on end-of-life conversations mentions IHI’s Conversation Project.
