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

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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This toolkit from OSHA is availalbe to the public and contains references, educational resources ...

May 8th, 2015
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Sylvia Getman, president and CEO of the Aroostook Medical Center and senior vice president of Eas...

April 29th, 2015

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

April 16th, 2015
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With the rapid pace of health care transformation hospitals are looking at ways to redefine the "...

April 13th, 2015
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“Mobility is medicine,” say clinicians and volunteers working together to improve patient care at...

April 13th, 2015
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The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

April 11th, 2015
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The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...

April 1st, 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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The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...

March 27th, 2015
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Delivering the right care, at the right time, in the right place. That focus is the strategy for ...

March 23rd, 2015

This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...

March 12th, 2015
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The only acceptable number of avoidable patient harms is zero. At Ponca City (Okla.) Medical Cent...

March 9th, 2015

Children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function and survival rates if their body mass ind...

March 8th, 2015
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With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, decisions made at the state level pla...

February 27th, 2015
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The AHA/HRET HEN project ended in December 2014, but quality improvement work continues at hospit...

February 9th, 2015
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The Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development recently released the report Bridging ...

January 27th, 2015
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Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, Ill., created a total knee and hip joint replacement center of excel...

January 5th, 2015
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