An Innovations Exchange Learning Community | AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange

An Innovations Exchange Learning Community | AHRQ Health Care Innovations Exchange

New AHRQ Video Highlights Importance of Patient- and Family-Centered Care in Hospitals

A new video from AHRQ’s Health Care Innovations Exchange describes former patient Bob Luckin’s journey from patient to patient adviser at Florida’s Broward Health North Hospital in Deerfield Beach, Florida. Broward Health North is one of 11 hospitals participating in AHRQ’s Patient- and Family-Centered Care Learning Community. In the video, Luckin emphasizes the value of hospitals partnering with patients to improve all aspects of care. The video is useful for any hospital interested in starting a patient and family adviser program, as well as patients and family members who are considering becoming advisers. The video complements an earlier innovation that described how Georgia Regents Medical Center, Augusta, Georgia, ensures that patients and family members help improve care by participating in a variety of patient advisory councils. AHRQ’s Innovations Exchange is an online resource that helps health professionals and researchers share and adopt evidence-based innovations that improve the delivery of health care.Click here for more information about the Innovations Exchange Patient- and Family-Centered Care Learning Community. Email questions or comments to info@innovations.ahrq.gov.

A Patient Advisor’s Perspective on Patient- and Family-Centered Care

This video features a former patient discussing his experience and journey to becoming a patient advisor for Broward Health North Hospital, one of 11 hospitals currently participating in the PFCC Learning Community. He emphasizes the importance and value of partnering with patients to advance the practice of patient- and family-centered care in hospitals. As a companion to theInnovations Exchange’s Frontline Innovators video series, it illustrates the human impact of theadvisor program innovation, which has been adopted and implemented by PFCC Learning Community member hospitals.

Frontline Innovators on Providing Patient- and Family-Centered Care: Bernard Roberson, MSM, BA, HSC

Frontline Innovators on Providing Patient- and Family-Centered Care: Michelle Rickerby, MD Diane DerMarderosian, MD

Frontline Innovators on Providing Patient- and Family-Centered Care: Judith Rogers, PhD, MSN, RN