Posted on: Monday, 30 June 2008, 15:03 CDT Twenty-one hospitals across Louisiana, Mississippi and Tennessee have come together to focus on improving clinical quality and patient safety as they relate to heart failure discharge instructions and surgical care. The hospitals have joined what's known as a Rapid Adoption Network (RAN), a virtual network that will allow them to share information about their clinical practices for the purpose of accelerating the pace of clinical improvement, cutting improvement time to less than one year. The RAN is sponsored by VHA Inc., the Texas-based national health care alliance. A unifying focal point for the RAN will be the clinical blueprint VHA has developed to help its members improve performance in heart care and surgical care. The participating member hospitals include: (list) --...
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