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The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...
The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...
...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...
Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...
The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...
To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...
Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...
Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...
With the rapid pace of health care transformation hospitals are looking at ways to redefine the "...
Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...
Children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function and survival rates if their body mass ind...
This webinar introduces and explains the ONC-sponsored SAFER guides, which can be found at http:/...
Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...
Presence St. Mary’s Hospital, Kankakee, Ill., improved readmission rates for heart failure patien...
Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...
Hospitals and care systems across the country are engaged in quality improvement efforts to impro...
Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and intrusions pose risks for every hospital and its reputation. Wh...
Since 2010, the academic medical center has been supporting a program to reduce 30-day all cause ...
The Missouri Hospital Association issued the Standardized, Plain Language Emergency Codes Impleme...
A “simple” complex plan is reducing readmissions at Wythe County Community Hospital, a 100-bed fa...
Goal-Save lives, reduce suffering and lower costs related to complications of surgery. Developed...
Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network GoalsReduce patient harm by 40 percent and ...
St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...
Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...
Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...
The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...
Many of the nation's hospitals and health systems have made progress laying the building blocks f...
Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...
The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...
How do you successfully integrate behavioral health and primary care? A recent HPOE webinar highl...
Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the national frequency of po...
Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc., have had a long-...
Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...
There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...
Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...
Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...
Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...
Early and safe mobility of critically ill patients in a cardiovascular surgical intensive care un...
After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...
The hospital joined the On the CUSP: Stop BSI collaborative offered by IHA. The focus was on CLA...
In October 2010, Memorial Medical Center implemented an intervention “bundle” designed to reduce ...
The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...
Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, ...
