Case Studies

    MHA Accountable Care Compass Awards

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    The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...

    February 29th, 2016
    Reducing 30-day Readmissions for Patients with Congestive Heart Failure

    Cortland Regional Medical Center’s Transitional Care Program is working to reduce 30-day readmiss...

    January 6th, 2017
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    Standardized Total Knee Replacement Analgesia Protocol Reduces Pain by 20% in Patients in an Academic Medical Center

    The goal of this project was to standardize protocols for controlling patient pain following tota...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Lean Six Sigma Reduces Troponin Turnaround Time by 94% for Cardiac Patients in Critical Access Hospital Emergency Department

    Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Decreasing VTE Rate and Length of Stay for Total Joint Patients Through an Interdisciplinary Orthopedic Co-Management Collaborative

    The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...

    September 16th, 2016
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    Improving Performance Using Evidence-Based Principles; Improving Discharge to Prevent Hospital Readmission of Heart Failure Patients

    The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

    May 27th, 2015
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    Implementation of Nursing Mobility Protocol to Foster Consistent Earlier Mobility of Patients in an Intensive Care Unit

    Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...

    April 3rd, 2015
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    NCH Healthcare System - Reducing ADEs with Medicare Patients

    NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...

    February 5th, 2015
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