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Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...
In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...
Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...
The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...
Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...
This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...
Avista Adventist Hospital, a 114-bed facility in Louisville, Colorado, used best practices and pe...
Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, used best practice...
Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...
Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...
Midstate Medical Center, a 134-bed facility in Meriden, Connecticut, committed to reducing harm a...
NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...
Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...
Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...
St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...
Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 406-bed facility in Yuma, Arizona, used best practices and peer-t...
Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...
There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...
This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.
Multidisciplinary rounding (MDR) is a model of care in which multiple members of the care deliver...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...
San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...
This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...
Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...
According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...
Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...
A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...
Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...
The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...
The Problem In 2004, Faxton Hospital and St. Luke's-Memorial Hospital merged. The leaders of the...
The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...
