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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...
The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...
The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...
Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center established the Quality Excellence Council at the beg...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...
Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...
The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...
St. Joseph Regional Health Center went on a Lean journey to not only save money, but improve the ...
Lean transformation means improved patient care, employee satisfaction and reduced costs as MSHA ...
Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...
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 ...
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc., have had a long-...
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...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
