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Elder-Friendly Hospitals: An Adaptation to Demographic Change

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This article highlights the John A. Hartford Foundation and the Institute for Healthcare Improvement’s aim of getting 20 percent of hospitals and health systems to be "Age-Friendly" by 2020 with the Age-Friendly Health System initiative.

Marabá Regional Hospital Encourages Dialogue with the Leadership to Increase Patient Safety

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This article highlights "Ronda de Alta Gestión", an IHI initiative that is part of the actions implemented in this regional hospital’s project, "Improving Patient Safety on a Large Scale in Brazil", promoted by the Ministry of Health.

Marabá Regional Hospital Encourages Dialogue with the Leadership to Increase Patient Safety

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This article highlights "Ronda de Alta Gestión", an IHI initiative that is part of the actions implemented in this regional hospital’s project, "Improving Patient Safety on a Large Scale in Brazil", promoted by the Ministry of Health.

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Is Your Board Effectively Overseeing Quality?

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This article gives an overview of IHI’s Framework for Effective Board Governance of Health System Quality and recommends three guiding principles to build improvement knowledge and capacity among board members.

WIHI: What’s an Apology Worth? The Case for Communication and Resolution

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April 18, 2019 | When a patient is unintentionally harmed, how should organizations respond?

The Universal Rule on How Much Time Hospitals Should Spend on Quality in Board Meetings

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This Q&A with Tejal Gandhi is about the recent Framework for Effective Board Guidance of Health System Quality, and accompanying GQA tool.

The Universal Rule on How Much Time Hospitals Should Spend on Quality in Board Meetings

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This Q&A with Tejal Gandhi is about the recent Framework for Effective Board Guidance of Health System Quality, and accompanying GQA tool.

‘Talking the Talk’: Advancing End-of-Life Conversations

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This article discusses National Healthcare Decisions Day, spearheaded by The Conversation Project whose mission is to educate health care providers and the public on the importance of end-of-life conversations and how to conduct them.

‘Talking the Talk’: Advancing End-of-Life Conversations

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This article discusses National Healthcare Decisions Day, spearheaded by The Conversation Project whose mission is to educate health care providers and the public on the importance of end-of-life conversations and how to conduct them.