The Washington State-based Providence health system has created a tele-behavioral health concierge, aiming to grant access to virtual appointments for mental healthcare when and where it is needed.
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What CNOs Should Know About Millennial and Gen Z Nurses
Millennial and Gen Z nurses cite team dynamics, professional growth opportunities, and flexible scheduling as important factors in the work environment as part of a new study.
‘If you don’t use it, you lose it’: Methodist Hospital unit focuses on keeping older patients active
For hospitals, balancing the need to keep patients safe from injurious falls while still preserving their mobility can be challenging. If patients don’t keep moving, they can get weaker.
Age-Friendly Health Systems: What Matters Most
Age is just one factor in health. However, as individuals get older, they most often have more, as well as more complicated, health needs, which create more opportunity for risk.
Trauma-Informed Care May Ease Patient Fear, Clinician Burnout
Trauma-informed care is already widely used in behavioral health, with guidance available from the US Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA). But it’s also increasingly being applied in other settings including primary care,…
Why Doctors Are Coming Where You Live — And Shop
Convenience and accessibility are critical for better, cost-efficient health and wellness care. So, doctors, nurses and other health professionals increasingly will come to the patients’ homes, neighborhood and community.
Health systems try to trim waste to reduce healthcare spending
Amid the debate about how to slow rising healthcare costs, a group of 54 healthcare organizations—many of them health systems—are working together to develop a strategy to reduce waste 50% by 2025.
Novel Quality Improvement Method to Reduce Cost While Improving the Quality of Patient Care
This article describes continuous value management (CVM), an approach developed by IHI in partnership with NHS Highland that is derived from Lean accounting and employs quality improvement (QI) methods, to assist health systems to decrease operating co…
IHI Announces New Age-Friendly Action Community
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Advancing Safety and Equity Together
There are persistent and widespread inequities in health outcomes in the United States based on race, sex, language, socioeconomic class, and other factors.
