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• WIHI: Reliable Practices for Responding to Natural Disasters: Lessons from Long Island Jewish and Hurricane Sandy
  May 16, 2013 | This WIHI look at how health care organizations and first responders prepare for crises and disasters and will get some perspective from leaders at NS-LIJ who were responsible for every kind of decision imaginable before, during, and after Hurricane Sandy.
• WIHI: Home for Life, Aging, and Aging in Place
  May 2, 2013 | This WIHI is focused on an initiative in South Georgian Bay, a community along the Severn River in Ontario, where six organizations have come together to create a web of resources called Home for Life, focused on the growing population that’s over 65.
• WIHI: Engaging Patients in Safety — Live from London and the International Forum on Quality and Safety
  April 18, 2013 | With at least a decade’s worth of ideas and initiatives on patient engagement with patient safety as a backdrop, new research on what is and isn’t working in the UK — with broad application to the US and elsewhere — is discussed, as well as new models for effective patient/provider collaboration around safety that are emerging in the US.
• WIHI: Community Health Needs Assessments, Part 2: Lessons from North Carolina
  April 4, 2013 | This WIHI explores what’s been going on under the auspices of the North Carolina Institute of Public Health (NCIPH), and the leadership of Dorothy Cilenti, M.D., and her team who have worked with local health directors, hospital leaders, leaders from community health centers, and more to lay the groundwork for the future of health and health care in the state.
• WIHI: Community Health Needs Assessments, Part 1
  March 21, 2013 | Three leading experts discuss the transformation of the decades-long “community benefit” law (largely focused on hospital support for indigent patients) into something more far reaching known as Community Health Needs Assessment, or CHNA.
• WIHI: No Excuses, No Slack! The Latest from the Front Lines on Hand Hygiene
  March 7, 2013 | This WIHI discusses recent innovations in hand hygiene with experts from facilities that have had success in achieving nearly universal compliance.
• WIHI: Clinicians and Financial Staff Can Improve Quality and Lower Costs, Part 2
  February 21, 2013 | This WIHI discusses cost reduction and quality improvement strategies that two organizations — Northeast Health and Hackensack University Medical Center — used to improve their bottom lines without sacrificing patient care.
• WIHI: Employers and Employees Can Improve Quality and Lower Costs: Stories from the Front Lines, Part 1
  February 7, 2013 | This WIHI discusses what promises to be the next wave of employer engagement in improving health and controlling health care costs in the US, including taking a deeper dive into the underlying, often chronic health conditions affecting today’s employees.
• WIHI: A Partnership to Reduce Deaths from Sepsis
  January 24, 2013 | This WIHI explores how North Shore–Long Island Jewish Health System has reduced its sepsis mortality rate significantly, and what others can learn from their progress.
• WIHI: Navigating New Care Teams with Nurse Practitioners
  January 10, 2013 | Learn how nurse practitioners and advanced practice nurses are being deployed and woven into new, interdisciplinary, team-based delivery designs that match the right caregivers with the right patients and the right needs.