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St. Joseph Regional Health Center went on a Lean journey to not only save money, but improve the ...
Lean transformation means improved patient care, employee satisfaction and reduced costs as MSHA ...
The Florida Hospital Association highlights its quality improvement initiatives with several repo...
Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...
St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...
Board members have a critical role to play in setting the tone for meaningful quality improvement...
Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...
Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...
Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...
Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...
Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...
The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...
