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Staying Mobile in the Hospital Helps to Get Better and Get Out

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(Editor’s note: This story is part of a series for The John A. Hartford Foundation.) In her work as the chief nursing officer for Anne Arundel Medical Center in Annapolis, Md., Barbara Jacobs recently found herself dodging all of the patients walking d… Continue reading →

How to Improve Hospitals: Ask Patients and Families

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Here’s a novel idea to help make hospitals more person-centered: include patients and their families in the key decisions for the medical centers, from strategy to operations. Nutty, right? Well, actually, this is an idea that’s slowly starting to catc… Continue reading →