Quality Improvement: Publications
Quality Collaborative, Winter 2011/2012
This issue highlights the first-year achievements of our STOP Sepsis Collaborative. Our guest column features a commentary by the chair of our Perinatal Safety Collaborative, underscoring the importance of hospital senior leadership in effecting culture change. The issue also includes an article about a recent ultrasound training program and an interview with a graduate from our Clinical Quality Fellowship Program.
New Directions
New directions. Innovation. Fundamental change. Those imperatives are an essential part of the Fund's work, as highlighted in the 2011 annual report.
Quality Collaborative, Summer 2011
This issue highlights the upcoming Catheter-Associated Urinary Tract Infection Collaborative. The guest column features one hospital system executive’s view of the four key ways his organization’s values align with those of our quality collaboratives, allowing for “exponential improvements.” Other articles focus on a new training component of the Perinatal Safety Collaborative and the project of one of the graduates of the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program to streamline medication refills.
Quality Collaborative, Winter 2010/2011
This issue highlights the launch of the STOP Sepsis Collaborative, an initiative co-led by the Fund and GNYHA that tackles one of the leading causes of death at every hospital in our region. The newsletter’s CEO column features one hospital’s perspective on participating in multiple quality improvement collaboratives. Other articles note the importance of physician experts to collaborative work and discuss how the Perinatal Safety Collaborative addresses challenges raised in a new report on maternal mortality.
Blueprint, Fall/Winter 2010
This issue of Blueprint features a cover story on making health care reform work in an environment of fiscal constraints, a commentary by Jim Tallon framing the Affordable Care Act, and a host of articles on Fund initiatives, grants, and events.
Rethink/Renew/Reshape/Reform
In this time of unprecedented urgency and opportunity, the Fund's 2010 annual report focuses on the clear links between our unique approach to shaping improved health care, our accomplishments of the past year, and the challenging road immediately ahead.
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.
Blueprint, Spring 2010
The latest issue of Blueprint presents the Fund's new family caregiving quality improvement collaborative, commentary by Jim Tallon on post-reform imperatives, and a host of articles on Fund initiatives, grants, and events.
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.
Vision/Accomplishment
The United Hospital Fund's 2009 annual report highlights the Fund's accomplishments over the past year and presents a vision—and imperatives—for the future of our health care system.
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.
Blueprint, Summer 2009
The latest issue of the Fund's newsletter spotlights the Fund's comprehensive new look at the state of New York's insurance market, a "culture-changing" program helping two hospitals encourage breastfeeding, updates on other Fund initiatives, and more.
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.
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