Putting Patients First
AHRA & Toshiba Putting Patients First Grants Enhance Safety in Imaging
The AHRA & Toshiba Putting Patients First program seeks to improve patient care and safety in diagnostic imaging for pediatrics and adults through offering grants to fund programs, trainings and seminars at local hospitals and imaging centers. The winning grant programs are selected by the AHRA and are dedicated to improving patient care and developing best imaging practices in the areas of CT, MR, Ultrasound and X-ray.
The Putting Patients First Program provides six grants of up to $7,500 each to hospitals and imaging centers and an additional grant of up to $20,000 to an Integrated Delivery Network (IDN) to fund programs, trainings or seminars aimed at improving patient care and safety in CT, MR, Ultrasound, X-ray and Vascular imaging. Three of the $7,500 grants are awarded for projects that improve pediatric imaging, while the other three are awarded for projects that improve overall patient care and safety in imaging. The grant of up to $20,000 is awarded to an IDN or hospital system for projects that improve overall patient care and safety in imaging across the IDN/hospital system.
2012 grant recipients include:
- Akron Children’s Hospital (Akron, Ohio) — The Radiology Patient & Family Education Program
- Crouse Hospital (Syracuse, N.Y.) — Acquiring Two Movable Lead Walls
- Connecticut Children's Medical Center (Hartford, Conn.) — Acquiring Two “Laser Localizer” Accessories
- Mission Children's Hospital Reuter Outpatient Center (Ashville, N.C.) — Child Life Intervention to Prepare Children for MRI Procedures
- The Methodist Hospital (Houston, Texas) — Commit to Sit
- Catalina Island Medical Center (Avalon, Calif.) — ACT Now
- Salem Township Hospital (Salem, Ill.) — CT Contrast & Weight-Based Dosing
2011 grant recipients include:
- Texas Children’s Hospital (Houston, Texas) — Use of MRI to Replace CT in the Imaging of Appendicitis in Children
- Fairview Health System (St. Paul, Minn.) — Initiative to Reduce Pediatric Diagnostic Imaging
- Cincinnati Children's Hospital (Cincinnati, Ohio) — Enhancing the Patient and Family Experience in a Children's Radiology Department Through the Use of Tablet Computers
- Bronson Methodist Hospital (Kalamazoo, Mich.) — Video Visits: Using Media to Ease the Pediatric Imaging Process
- St. Vincent Medical Center (Bridgeport, Conn.) — Exposing Safety: Strategies for Radiation Protection
- John T. Mather Memorial Hospital (Port Jefferson, N.Y.) — Reducing CT Scan Cumulative Dose Education
- Harnett Health Betsy Johnson Hospital (Dunn, N.C.) — Medical Imaging to Pharmacy