Innovations by Posted Date

A diabetes disease management program provides remote education and eye screenings for low-income individuals in rural South Carolina, leading to increased eye exam rates, reduced blood glucose and cholesterol levels, improved self-management behaviors, and high levels of patient satisfaction.

Clinical pharmacists working in 12 community health centers provide medication reconciliation, monitoring, dosage adjustments, and education to high-risk patients, including those with severe diabetes and those on anticoagulants.

The Payne-Phalen Living at Home/Block Nurse Program is a community-based program that provides medical and social services to neighborhood seniors, enabling them to live at home rather than in a nursing home.

The Dental Health Aide Program enhances access to oral health care by training dental therapists to provide culturally appropriate education and routine dental services to high-risk residents of rural villages.

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center implemented a diabetes education program in the waiting room to improve patients' health literacy and self-management skills.

Rural and Urban Access to Health, an integrated network of field-based workers, connects vulnerable populations in nine largely rural counties in central Indiana to health, human, and social services.

The Promoting Health in Teens and Kids weight management program offers culturally sensitive group education intervention for obese children and their parents that addresses behavioral changes related to  physical activity and nutrition, along with families' economic challenges that might make weight management difficult for children.

The Medical Language Interpretive Services program in Grady Health System uses a multipronged approach to increase staffing and the hospital's capacity to provide interpretation services to meet the needs of patients with low English proficiency.

The Pathways to Health project increases access to care by linking three groups to medical homes: pregnant African-American women at high risk of having low birthweight babies, Hispanic men at high risk for diabetes, and individuals diagnosed with a chronic mental illness.

Summa Health System's Care Coordination Network strives to ensure smooth transitions between the hospitals and 37 local skilled nursing facilities, leading to fewer readmissions and lower length of stay in the hospital.

Advanced practice nurses provide primary, preventive, and mental health care to individuals with severe mental illness, leading to improvements in health outcomes.

A health literacy tutoring program enhances access to culturally appropriate health education for elder immigrants and increases knowledge and skills among students and elders.

Reflective questions and conversations integrated into home visitation programs increased the health literacy of low-income pregnant women and new parents, thus empowering them to better manage their family's health and medical care.

Mobile kiosks enhance access to health information for low-income women with limited literacy, leading to increased motivation to adopt healthier behaviors.

A comprehensive, interdisciplinary skin care program that relies on protocols and guidelines for proactive assessment and treatment, regular education and training of nurses, and ongoing performance monitoring significantly reduced the incidence of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers.

A two-hospital system implemented an intravenous infusion safety initiative that has helped avoid many infusion-related errors, leading to significant cost savings and high levels of nurse satisfaction.

Pediatric offices systematically offer cessation support to parents who smoke, leading to an increase in the provision of such support and higher quit rates.

Regular nursing rounds conducted throughout day, evening, and overnight shifts substantially reduced call light use and falls, eliminated pressure ulcers, and increased patient and staff satisfaction.

Practicing simulated surgical situations in real hospital operating rooms leads to better teamwork and improved care processes during everyday practice.

An array of Web-based, interactive tools and services, including an online, shared health record, empowers health plan enrollees to take greater responsibility for their health and health care.