Clostridium difficile Collaborative: Publications
Quality Collaborative, Fall 2010
This issue offers two different perspectives on one of the hot-button topics of our day—reducing avoidable hospital readmissions. In one, a CEO discusses her hospital’s decade-long approach, while in the other, GNYHA and the United Hospital Fund outline our multi-pronged strategy to work with providers throughout the region. Another article focuses on two of our initiatives to help hospitals better manage their use of antibiotics as a key to preventing avoidable infections. And an academic medical center’s chief quality officer discusses the importance of our Clinical Quality Fellowship Program, which is training the next generation of quality improvement and patient safety leaders.
Quality Collaborative, Spring 2010
This issue offers one hospital’s perspective on parallels between its quality improvement work and its efforts to prevent the spread of H1N1. A participant in the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program is interviewed about the project he undertook through the program and its results. Other articles highlight successes of the Rapid Response System Collaborative (a significant reduction in code-blue calls) and the C. difficile Collaborative (an 18 percent infection rate decline).
Quality Collaborative, Winter 2009/2010
The winter 2009/2010 issue of Quality Collaborative features a guest column by Dr. Daniel Aronzon, president and CEO of Vassar Brothers Medical Center, about the Rapid Response System Collaborative, a story about a Critical Care Leadership Network-hosted symposium, a story about the launch of a new antibiotic management program, and an interview with Dr. Rohit Bhalla, chief quality officer at Montefiore Medical Center, about addressing preventable hospital readmissions.
Blueprint, Fall 2009
The latest issue of Blueprint presents an overview of the critical issue of expanding insurance coverage, commentary by Jim Tallon on the crisis in health care, and a host of features on Fund initiatives and events.
Quality Collaborative, Summer 2009
The summer 2009 issue of Quality Collaborative features a guest column by Montefiore's President Steven M. Safyer, MD; interviews with Maimonides Ob/Gyn Chairman Howard Minkoff, MD, and Clinical Quality Fellowship Program class member Pranav Mehta, MD; and an article about the Critical Care Leadership Network.
Quality Collaborative, Spring 2009
The spring 2009 issue of Quality Collaborative presents stories on the Perinatal Safety Collaborative, the C. difficile Collaborative, and the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program, and a guest column by HHC president Alan Aviles.
Blueprint, Spring 2009
A new Fund website for family caregivers, an innovative approach to high-cost patients, an invaluable consumer guide to health care coverage after job loss, and more Fund news.
Quality Collaborative, Winter 2008/09
The winter 2008/09 issue of Quality Collaborative presents stories on the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program, the new MRSA Collaborative, and the focus on collaboratives at an APIC event, as well as a guest column by Mather Hospital president Kenneth Roberts.
Blueprint, Summer 2008
This issue of Blueprint reports on the Fund’s work in helping Medicaid reshape itself, a comprehensive neighborhood-based approach to addressing asthma, and anew initiative targeting a deadly hospital-acquired infection.
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