Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

November 23rd, 2015
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Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...

October 6th, 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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The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...

September 14th, 2015
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Blood transfusions to treat anemia can have a significant impact on patient outcomes. It was reco...

September 14th, 2015
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This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

July 6th, 2015
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The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

June 18th, 2015
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The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

June 18th, 2015
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Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

June 17th, 2015
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Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

June 17th, 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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This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

June 9th, 2015
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The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

June 8th, 2015
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The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...

June 8th, 2015
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The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

June 3rd, 2015
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SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...

June 1st, 2015
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Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

May 29th, 2015
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Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

May 15th, 2015
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Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

March 31st, 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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