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We are a hospital membership organization – a Colloquium – Heart Failure Experts working together. Our improvement methodology covers the entire continuum of care and leads to becoming a Colloquium Accredited Heart Failure Center or Institute – an important distinction for those seeking pre-eminence in their market. If heart failure is important to you and your hospital, then you are important to the Colloquium, building the healthcare system of the future – Hospital by Hospital.
- Hospital Membership Organization
Hospitals join the Colloquium and participate as members. As a hospital membership organization,...
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YANA means You Are Not Alone. Surviving the current healthcare environment can be daunting. There...
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Edward Chamberlin, an American economist, was first to define “differentiation” in terms of a...
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Knowledge provides the foundation. Discernment permits interpretation to create actionable...
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“I go to sleep with heart failure every night and I wake up with heart failure every morning.”...
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Community Domain
Individuals with heart failure live within our communities. Given the chronic and progressive nature of heart failure, communities need to be responsive to the needs of individuals and their families. In many...
Hospital Domain
The hospital is central in organizing heart failure care due to the nature of the illness itself. All individuals with heart failure experience acute decompensated heart failure (ADHF) at some point and will...
Clinician Domain
The Clinician Domain is dedicated to all those who deliver clinical care to individuals with heart failure and their families. We ask, “How can we care for the caregivers?” Within the human dyad there are...
Science Domain
Everyone desires kind and compassionate healthcare. No one wants to see Nurse Ratched (One Flew over the Cuckoo’s Nest) walk into their room. So if there is a minimum expectation of kind and compassionate...
Sudden Cardiac Death in Heart Failure – Predictable - now Potentially Preventable…
Timely defibrillation saves lives. It makes sense to equip those at risk with some form of monitor to detect rhythm disturbance AND to provide the lifesaving shock as close to the onset of the rhythm disturbance as possible. In fact, the entire sequence from detecting a life-threatening dysrhythmia to automatically delivering an emergency defibrillation ...
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I encourage hospitals to seek heart failure accreditation through the Colloquium. The journey to accreditation helps assure that our patients receive care that is evidence-based... 
MSN, MA, RN, CPN, NE-BC
Chief Nursing Officer and
Vice President of
Patient Care Services
Indiana University
Health North Hospital -