The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a leading cause of death among all hospitalacquir...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem Communication is listed as the leading factor in the root causes of sentinel events ...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem St. Francis struggled getting non-emergent patients from the door to an ED bed in a ...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem The results of blood tests are crucial to physician decision making. At St. Luke's, ...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

July 31st, 2009
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The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Advocate Lutheran General Hospital admits 32 percent of its emergency department pat...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Nurses have always stuggled with balancing time between their workloads. Employee sa...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem According to the American Heart Association, heart failure affects about 5.7 million...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission s...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Falls can occur at any time during the hospitalization, resulting in complications s...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Hand hygiene is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infection in ...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michi...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Bronson's patient safety committee appointed a task force to look at medication erro...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem With the national average of hospital-acquired skin breakdown at 4.8 percent, Bronso...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem According to a 2006 study published in Nursing Management, 60,000 U.S. hospital pati...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem The infection rate in the NICU at Charleston Area Medical Center was 18 percent in 2...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem DMC wanted to chart a new path for fulfilling its mission of offering the best possi...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem After examining hospital data to pinpoint opportunities to improve, Gundersen Luther...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Falls are a serious problem for older people, composing the largest single category ...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Norwalk Hospital was an early developer and user of health information technology. I...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Nearly one million people develop pressure ulcers each year, and 60,000 U.S. hospita...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem OSF St. Mary Medical Center, in collaboration with the OSF system-wide Patient Safet...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Ventilator associated pneumonia are infections that occur in ventilator tubes and ac...

July 1st, 2009
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The Problem Carolina Medical Center-Mercy worked on patient throughput in its ED, while developi...

June 1st, 2009
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Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve...

April 2nd, 2009
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This article discusses the role of information technology to achieve population health goals.

April 1st, 2009
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The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...

February 1st, 2009
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From October 2009 to February 2011, MR CHAMMP sponsored 67 programs which were provided to the co...

January 29th, 2009
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Mercy has participated in developing a network of health care providers and community agencies to...

January 28th, 2009
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The Diversity & Inclusion Council was developed to create and sustain an organizational culture t...

January 27th, 2009
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The Lourdes Center for Public Health works collaboratively with academic and community partners t...

January 26th, 2009
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Mercy Health Partners  and Saint Mary's Health Care will be participating in the Improving Langua...

January 25th, 2009
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The St. Francis Medical Center Kitty DeGree Breast Health Center employs a full-time breast healt...

January 24th, 2009
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In the Pink is a program of Saint Michael's Medical Center and the program provides outreach, edu...

January 23rd, 2009
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St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., has taken a lead role in creating the Hope Dis...

January 22nd, 2009
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St. Joseph Community Health  in Albuquerque, New Mexico, wants to make sure that all children hav...

January 21st, 2009
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Holy Cross Hospital Health Centers are primary care medical centers that provide affordable servi...

January 20th, 2009
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In order to significantly impact the patients with HF and reduce their readmission rates at Prove...

January 19th, 2009
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The Healthy Start/Healthy Families program primary goal is preventing chronic health problems in ...

January 18th, 2009
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The program's goal is to help participants obtain knowledge about their health care options and t...

January 17th, 2009
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The Franciscan Clinic was designed with the idea that all employees who carry the hospital's insu...

January 16th, 2009
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Migrant Health Promotion strives to improve the ability of migrant farm worker families to live h...

January 15th, 2009
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Equity in Care was initiated by Trinity Health in 2009 and has grown to include identifying poten...

January 14th, 2009
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