IHA case studies

AHA Webinars

Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...

May 11th, 2017
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Expansion of an Oncology Rehabilitation Service Line

This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...

September 16th, 2016
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IHA 2015 Quality Awards

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

October 6th, 2015
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Care Coordination Across the Continuum to Improve Transitions of Care with the Goal of Reducing Readmissions

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

June 16th, 2015
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Lean/Six Sigma Methods Reduce Troponin Turnaround Time for Emergency Department Patients in a 500-Bed Tertiary Hospital Level I Trauma Center

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

June 10th, 2015
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Reducing Readmissions: A Strategic Initiative to Look at All Preventable Readmissions and How the Hospital Can Make a Difference in the Health of the Community

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

June 4th, 2015
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Reducing Avoidable Hospital Readmissions for the Heart Failure Population

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

June 2nd, 2015
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Heart Failure Care Transitions from Hospital to Home in Cooperation with Several Illinois Hospitals

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

April 11th, 2015
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