Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

March 11th, 2013
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Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

March 6th, 2013
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The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...

March 6th, 2013
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The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

March 6th, 2013
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In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...

March 6th, 2013
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A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

March 6th, 2013
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Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

March 6th, 2013
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An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

March 6th, 2013
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This webinar provided an understanding of how scientific operations management and IHO Variabilit...

March 5th, 2013
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A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

March 4th, 2013
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A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

March 4th, 2013
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This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

March 1st, 2013
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The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...

March 1st, 2013
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Development of a Norwood Clinic allowed the quality improvement team to create goals to decrease ...

March 1st, 2013
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Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

March 1st, 2013
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Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...

February 25th, 2013
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The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

February 13th, 2013
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Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportuniti...

February 11th, 2013
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Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...

February 7th, 2013
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The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...

February 4th, 2013
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