Health Research and Educational Trust

Quality/cost/disparities: hret conducts management Research to improve quality, reducing costs, and eliminating disparities. Numerous Research projects worked with hospitals nationally to reduce infections and to improve safety culture scores. In addition, hret provides hospitals with tools and training materials compiled from various surveys conducted to help educate healthcare professionals. Examples include the comprehensive unit-based safety program (cusp), which transforms care and patient safety at the unit level by improving culture, with support from the agency for healthcare Research and quality.

Research and development of resources addressing best practices and models for population health and community partnerships. Leadership training in health care transformation for hospital leaders.

Hret's translational Research program identifies and executes strategies and methods to disseminate and implement Research findings, knowledge, tools, and best practices. Hret was awarded a contract by the agency for healthcare Research and quality (ahrq) to accomplish the goal of helping to strengthen the quality and safety of patient care in hospitals and other provider settings by using consumer-targeted resources that can be co-branded and shared with patients.