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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 ...
St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
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...
Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...
African immigrants and refugees represent four percent of the total population in the United Stat...
This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...
As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...
Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...
Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...
Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...
University of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MS623 Beds The Problem University of Mississipp...
Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...
The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...
