To successfully address these urgent challenges, healthcare organizations must have the ability to measure maternal ...

Prevention TaskForce, an app from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force, is available to help healthcare professionals identify which screenings, counseling interventions and preventive medications ...

Diagnostic Excellence in U.S. Rural Healthcare: A Call to Action, a new issue brief from AHRQ, addresses urgent challenges encountered in U.S. rural healthcare to achieve diagnostic excellence, with a ...

In recent days, we at AHRQ have been excited by the enthusiastic response to a Notice of Funding Opportunity that invites ...

The human suffering caused by sepsis is shocking. New AHRQ analyses show that in 2021, more than 2 million Americans—roughly equivalent to the population of Phoenix, Arizona—were hospitalized with ...

The average total hospital cost for sepsis stays was 52 percent higher at public, nonfederal urban hospitals when compared with private, for-profit urban hospitals, ranging from nearly $30,000 at ...

Monitoring severe maternal morbidity (SMM) using hospital discharge data is vital to improving maternal health outcomes in the United States. SMM reflects a composite of 20 indicators of unexpected ...

Porcha Carter - In the role of Director of Community Partnerships, Porcha leads the community models in UnitedHealth Group’s Community Strategy portfolio. She is responsible for establishing, growing, ...

Jay Crosson welcomed the group, thanking everyone for their attendance. Each person in the room introduced themselves, sharing their name, location, and organization. Jay then went over the agenda for ...

On September 26, 2024, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ) held the Building State Cooperatives for Healthcare Improvement meeting to identify the key components and processes needed ...