Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Surgery case cancellation rates OSF Center for Health were 10.5 percent over six months. This cre...

Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP) is a nonprofit comprehensive health care system based in Los...

Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...

This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...

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

Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

The goal was to reduce the delay in patient care by reducing patient wait times, both from reques...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

Medical center evidence pointed to a delay in surgery beyond 48 hours for hip fracture patients a...

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

The average length of stay for patients undergoing single elective total joint replacement surger...

The Problem The average ED length of stay was 413 minutes (6 hours, 53 minutes). Fourteen percen...