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Vassar Brothers Medical Center enhances community care
Their community care team identifies people who need wrap-around services and facilitates ongoing care plans, leveraging the power of a community-based anchor institution to mobilize cross-sector partnerships.
HANYS honors Mohawk Valley Health System with 2022 Community Health Improvement Award
Mohawk Valley Health System and community partners formed the Lead-Free and Healthy Homes Mohawk Valley Coalition to reduce lead poisoning, improve testing and support access to healthy housing.
HANYS’ health equity collaborative bridges intention to action
Advancing Healthcare Excellence and Inclusion provides education, tools and support to help New York hospitals and health systems achieve their health equity goals.
44 New York facilities achieve IHI’s Age-Friendly Health System designation in 2022 with support from HANYS
Improving the care of older adults, 85 healthcare facilities have been designated Age-Friendly in the program’s first two years.
Hospital for Special Surgery helps its community age with dignity
HSS' Aging with Dignity program provides participants with tools to overcome aging challenges, creates a sense of community and offers a calming, supportive and open environment to discuss shared experiences.
Buffalo General Medical Center fosters population health through food accessibility
Their Food as Medicine program has built a culture of local food procurement practices and increased their community’s access to healthy food.
North Shore University Hospital closes the loop on significant unexpected clinical findings
They established clinical management guidelines and a trauma concurrent nurse reviewer to improve the communication, documentation and follow-up of incidental clinical findings.
UVM Health Network–CVPH delivers safe and effective COVID-19 treatment
CVPH's “hospital without walls” approach to delivering COVID-19 monoclonal antibodies eased the burden of a thinly stretched ED staff and allowed nursing home residents to recover at home.
St. John’s Episcopal Hospital secures healthy food for its community
St. John's Episcopal worked with community partners to distribute fresh produce and non-perishables and free COVID-19 vaccinations, test kits, health screenings and education.
White Plains Hospital streamlines the emergency department patient experience
WPH's comprehensive ED redesign improved patient flow and efficiency, reduced length of stay and significantly decreased their door-to-provider and door-to-department times.
University of Rochester Medical Center improves care using comprehensive medication management
URMC embedded clinical pharmacists in 10 primary care practice sites and used comprehensive medication management to optimize medication regimens and improve disease control.
New report from Healthcare Association of New York State committee identifies COVID-19 lessons learned in New York hospitals
A new report from the Healthcare Association of New York State’s (HANYS) Statewide Steering Committee on Quality Initiatives, “COVID-19 Lessons Learned in New York’s Hospitals,” used multiple performance improvement methodologies to identify risks and opportunities in current structures, processes and outcomes at New York hospitals amid the COVID-19 pandemic.
