In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...

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The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

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Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

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The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

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Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...

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This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...

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The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...

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The Community Health Network (CHN) targets the socioeconomic determinants of health that are not ...

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This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for ...

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Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

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The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...

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Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...

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Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...

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The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...

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Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...

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The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...

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The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...

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Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...

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Concussions are a growing problem for young athletes. The hospital’s overall goal is to educate a...

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Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

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