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What is new and important in ERAS! A protocol to get started and a pathway to get better. Great working with Gregg Nelson and Kevin Elias, MD on this

To develop patient safety solutions, we need to think outside the box. The Charting a Course to Safer Care convening brought together experts to develop new ideas for patient safety innovation, touching areas like transparency, new technologies, and systems-level solutions. We're grateful to JHF for making this work possible.

This #WorldHealthDay we're proud to be helping mothers and babies survive and thrive. Our BetterBirth team is working toward this mission with projects to: ✅ Make childbirth safer 🤱🏿 Improve feeding for vulnerable newborns 👶🏾 Support families after birth Learn more about their work in a Program Spotlight: https://lnkd.in/eU5ehean

Our incredible Home Hospital team is expanding the possibilities of acute care at home! At World Hospital at Home Cоngress - WHAHC in Vienna, team members presented exciting new research in rural home hospital, an innovative model to expand access to hospital-level care in rural settings!

How much time and effort is needed for an X-ray? How about coordinating care with specialists, other health professionals, and the patient herself? Often, the essential services of primary care don't fit neatly in a fee-for-service box, and that has negatively impacted how primary care is valued. A NASEM Health and Medicine Division report with Asaf Bitton explores new ways to better align primary care payment with its value:

Stroke treatments can be life-changing -- if patients can access them in time. Our Spark Grant team worked with community hospitals to design and test a checklist to facilitate timely evaluation and treatment for stroke patients.

Concierge medicine can ease clinician burnout and improve some patients' access to their PCP – but there are costs beyond the sticker price. On Good Morning America, Asaf Bitton asks, "What happens to the people left behind – the patients unable to pay for concierge care and the clinicians who don't want to work in a system that only provides care for people who can pay?"

How health care is paid for influences how health care is delivered. Executive Director Asaf Bitton explains the impact of fee-for-service payment on primary care and potential steps to make primary care payment align with its value.

Happening in one hour! Join us in learning about serious *wellness* conversations!

Words matter, especially when someone has been harmed in their health care. Shifting from legal and institutional jargon to patient-centered language can help health systems better support patients and families after harm. The PACT team discusses the power & pain of words: