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In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...
The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...
The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...
The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...
High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...
Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...
Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...
The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...
This academic medical center developed and implemented a program to improve outcomes and reduce r...
“Every staff member counts” and “every patient counts.” With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in...
Every day, hospitals are successfully meeting challenges and providing quality care in their comm...
Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...
A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...
The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...
A performance improvement project was initiated to reduce the number of elective inductions and c...
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...
...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...
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...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
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...