The Health Research and Educational Trust was founded in 1944 as the nonprofit research and education affiliate of the American Hospital Association. Based in Chicago, the trust’s mission is to transform health care through research and education, and the trust’s applied research seeks to create new knowledge, tools and assistance in improving the delivery of health care by providers and practitioners within the communities they serve.
The trust focuses on identifying and exploring key issues affecting the health care delivery system. Its applied research focuses on improving quality, eliminating disparities, improving care coordination, improving leadership and governance, conducting data analysis and supporting the spread of improvement. Through the American Hospital Association’s Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence strategy, the trust has helped hospital leaders to accelerate performance improvement by disseminating best practices, producing actionable reports and toolkits, conducting leadership development programs and implementing national improvement projects.
Our work with the organization ranges from the support of a study of current engagement approaches in hospitals to accelerate the implementation of effective approaches for patient and family engagement to the development of a web-based resource and community for transitional care program implementers.
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