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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 ...
The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...
Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...
Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...
The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...
Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...
The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...
The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...
Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...
Concussions are a growing problem for young athletes. The hospital’s overall goal is to educate a...
Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...
Patient falls during hospitalization can lead to increased inpatient care costs, decreased patien...
The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...
The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...
Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...
As identified in its 2014 Culture of Safety survey, the hospital’s overall mean score for the sta...
A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...
In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...
A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...
Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...
