Quality Improvement: Publications
Blueprint, Spring 2013
The Spring 2013 issue of Blueprint spotlights the Fund's quality improvement partnerships; offers commentary by Jim Tallon; celebrates hospital auxilians and volunteers; and highlights the latest Fund news.
Blueprint, Fall/Winter 2012
The Fall/Winter Blueprint examines the new realities of family caregiving, offers commentary by Jim Tallon on the Affordable Care Act, spotlights this year's Gala honorees, and features the latest news of Fund projects.
Explain. Improve. Connect.
Explain, improve, connect: three imperatives for our time that also describe both the goals and substance of the Fund's work.
Quality Collaborative, Fall 2012
Among this issue's highlights: the CDC recognizes our Clostridium difficile Collaborative—focusing on its success in significantly reducing the incidence of infections. In the guest column
Blueprint, Spring/Summer 2012
The Spring/Summer 2012 Blueprint looks at how the Fund is advancing health care innovation, offers commentary by Jim Tallon, and features news on the latest Fund projects and events.
Quality Collaborative, Spring 2012
This issue announces the start of the New York State Partnership for Patients. The guest column features a commentary on why palliative care is both a professional and moral obligation. The issue also includes insights from two participants in the STOP Sepsis Collaborative and a story about the launch of the fourth year of the Clinical Quality Fellowship Program.
Blueprint, Winter 2012
The Winter 2012 issue of Blueprint features a first look at the Fund's new Preventable Hospital Readmissions Initiative, commentary by Jim Tallon, and more.
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.
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