Evidenced-based Falls Prevention in Critical Access Hospitals
This policy brief is part of a series of policy briefs by the Flex Monitoring Team identifying and assessing evidence-based patient safety and quality improvement interventions appropriate for use by state Flex Programs and Critical Access Hospitals.
Key Findings:
Reporting falls data to one of the national organizations allows for benchmarking.
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Policy Brief on Federal Health Care Reform
In this policy brief, Dr. Andrew Coburn of the Muskie School discusses three of the main components of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA): health insurance coverage, delivery system improvement, and cost containment, highlighting some of the provisions of the law that have already been implemented and those where important implementation decisions will have to be made.
Center Research Associate Earns Doctorate
Congratulations and a round of applause to Erika Ziller for successfully defending her doctoral dissertation: Health Insurance Stability among Rural Children Following Public Coverage Expansions.
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