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Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...
In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...
Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three exampl...
Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...
Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...
Patient safety is the number one priority at this facility. After discussing medication errors at...
In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...
A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...
The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...
This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...
This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...
The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...
The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...
During the 2013-14 influenza season, an emergency preparedness mass influenza vaccination drill w...
The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...
Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...
This project is aimed at reduction of adverse outcomes experienced by patients as a result of CLA...
This project is aimed at reduction of adverse outcomes experienced by patients as a result of CLA...
The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...
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...
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...
