August 15, 2018 The Pennsylvania Health Care Quality Alliance (PHCQA) updated its website, www.PAHealthCareQuality.org, with readmission and mortality data through Q2 2017 for conditions such as heart attack, heart failure, pneumonia, and stroke.  This data, sourced...

July 25, 2018 The 2018 Delaware Valley Patient Safety & Quality Award call for entries officially closed last week on Tuesday, July 17. This year’s award program garnered twenty-nine submissions from ten regional PPC-contributing organizations. Thirty-four review...

July 18, 2018 HCIF highlights is our monthly newsletter that provides updates on all of our current programs, including information about past events, upcoming events, progress towards meeting program goals, and program achievements.  Learn about the latest news and...

With support from the Pennsylvania Department of Health, HCIF promotes regional and statewide health literacy initiatives across multiple sectors. One aim of this work is to offer opportunities for health care professionals to build capacity in addressing the health...

Sarah Svetec is the newest addition to the HCIF team as the Summer Data & Research Intern. Sarah is a rising senior at Haverford College. She is a psychology major and a health studies minor. Sarah is an aspiring physician but is also interested in public health and...

HCIF highlights is our monthly newsletter that provides updates on all of our current programs, including information about past events, upcoming events, progress towards meeting program goals, and program achievements.  Learn about the latest news and updates from...

CPR & AED Awareness Week took place across the nation during the first week of June. The goal of this week was to raise public awareness of hands-only CPR and AED use in order to spread the word that anyone can save the life of someone in cardiac arrest. As part of...

The Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) has hosted the Delaware Valley Patient Safety and Quality Award for the past sixteen years. This program is one of many ways in which HCIF promotes best practices in health care patient safety and quality throughout the...

HCIF highlights is our monthly newsletter that provides updates on all of our current programs, including information about past events, upcoming events, progress towards meeting program goals, and program achievements.  Learn about the latest news and updates from...

With generous support from the Foundation for Delaware County and the assistance of The Mobile CPR Project, CPR Ready trained 93 senior citizens in CPR and AED use on May 4th during the Delaware County Office of Services for the Aging's Celebrate Age Senior Expo at...