March 12-18, 2017, is Patient Safety Awareness Week, led by the National Patient Safety Foundatio...

March 13th, 2017
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In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...

September 16th, 2016
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A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...

August 15th, 2016
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Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

November 23rd, 2015
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In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

October 6th, 2015
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What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Que...

August 24th, 2015
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National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

June 10th, 2015
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Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

June 4th, 2015
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To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

June 2nd, 2015
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Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...

June 1st, 2015
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Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

April 16th, 2015
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An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

March 27th, 2015
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This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...

March 12th, 2015
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The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...

November 24th, 2014
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The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...

October 30th, 2014
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Hospitals and care systems across the country are engaged in quality improvement efforts to impro...

September 23rd, 2014
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The culture of an organization can actively support the commitment of its workforce by providing ...

August 12th, 2014
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The hospital applied for the Joint Commission certification as a Primary Stroke Center. In order...

July 31st, 2014
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Approximately 11,000 fatal patient falls occur in U.S. hospitals annually, but hospitals using ne...

May 22nd, 2014
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This podcast series explores a variety of different topics around patient safety and performance ...

May 22nd, 2014
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