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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Nurses at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, part of Catholic Health, introduced a Diabetes Education Qui...
Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...
After reducing health care-acquired deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE) in 2011,...
Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...
The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...
The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...
The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...
The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...
The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...
The project focused on managing sepsis in the emergency department and in admitted patients, with...
Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...
A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...
Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...
Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...
TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...
This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...
Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...
The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identi...
Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Outcomes Improvements, 30-Day Readmissions and Morta...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...