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Futurescan 2022 PowerPoint

The PowerPoint presentation, Futurescan 2022, features highlights from the latest edition of Futurescan, one of the industry's most respected health care trends forecasts. Ready for immediate use at your organization, you can employ this presentation tool for staff, leadership or boards.

Boardroom 101

This resource from AHA Trustee Services provides information and guidance, including sample agendas and questions for board members to consider as they learn about health care, their hospital and/or health system, and board responsibilities.
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Patient Safety Initiative FAQ

Hospitals and health systems have shared with AHA their passion to work together to reinforce and accelerate our field’s patient safety efforts. As a result, AHA is launching a national initiative to reaffirm hospital and health system leadership and commitment to patient safety.

Role of Hospitals: UofL Health and Carroll County Memorial Hospital

Big city and rural hospitals partner to address critical community health needs. The goal of the partnership is to improve access to care and keep specialty resources close to home.

Role of Hospitals: UK Health Care

UK HealthCare has created a unique partnership with Bluegrass Community & Technical College (BCTC) and school districts in the state to support students interested in a health care career and increase interest in the health care field.
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Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital - Making HAI Prevention ‘Everyone’s Job’

Trusted collaboration among all stakeholders, coupled with a clear consensus for keeping health care teams and patients safe, drive the infection prevention efforts at Missouri Baptist Sullivan Hospital.
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Northwestern Memorial Hospital: Multidisciplinary Team Leads Practice Change to Prevent Infections

In 2021, the Infection Prevention and Transplant Infectious Diseases teams at Northwestern Memorial Hospital in Chicago observed a significant increase in the number of pulmonary infections caused by Mycobaterium abscessus.
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Advocate Condell Hospital: Improving Process to Improve Infection Prevention and Control

To reduce infection rates more effectively, successful hospitals and health systems are focusing on the fundamentals. For Advocate Condell Hospital, the focus is on process improvements.
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MUSC Health: Standardizing Processes —Small Steps Are Key to Preventing SSIs

One Surgical Site Infection (SSI) is one too many for the team at MUSC Health in Charleston, South Carolina. MUSC’s mission is “Do no harm and change what’s possible”; MUSC knows that decreasing SSIs is “an absolute change that IS possible.”
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Infection Prevention and Control Success Stories

Hospitals across the field look for practical infection prevention solutions. Advocate Condell Hospital focused on process and reduced HAI rates.