A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...

June 1st, 2012
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Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

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Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

June 1st, 2012
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A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

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Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

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As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...

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Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

February 1st, 2012
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Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

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Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

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In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...

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Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

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In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

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Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

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To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

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Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

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Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

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Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

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In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

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In 2005, Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center's leadership directed implementation of ...

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The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...

February 1st, 2012
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