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The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...
Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...
Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...
When Kaiser Permanente in California measured its incidence of pressure ulcers in patients three ...
Implementing quality improvement projects can improve patient safety and reduce inefficiency. But...
In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose ...
AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...
Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...
The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a mu...
Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...
Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...
Carolinas HealthCare System, based in Charlotte, N.C., is partnering with 12 YMCA branches "to cr...
Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...
The answer is: attracting, retaining and developing the best workforce. The question: What is one...
Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...
Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...
Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...
Listening to patients and the community can spark change. The Lehigh Valley Health Network, in ea...
"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...
Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...
Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, used "a novel approach" to ...
The journey from good to great for Good Samaritan Hospital of Baltimore started with differentiat...
At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...
When an employee found directions in her hospital?s emergency department?with directions to other...
Quality improvement and transparency go hand in hand, David Ballard, M.D., senior vice president ...
Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...
Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...
The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon. The average for Lehi...
The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon. The average for Lehi...
Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed i...
Seamless, effective patient handoffs are a critical piece of any hospital?s patient safety framew...
Moving from a paper world to an electronic one is an "evolution," says Marcy Stoots, RN, director...
For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...
Reducing preventable harm by half is a lofty goal for any hospital, let alone a large, integrated...
Reducing preventable harm by half is a lofty goal for any hospital, let alone a large, integrated...
When Katherine Herrmann, the clinical quality facilitator at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, w...
Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...
When the H1N1 flu virus emerged in the spring of 2009, U.S. hospitals were challenged by crowded ...
The 3,500 employees of Eastern (Bangor) Maine Medical Center are role models for other employees ...
An AHA research synthesis report presents an overview of bundled payment, including evidence of i...
After attending a 2005 conference on trauma-informed care, two nurses at Chambersburg (Pa.) Hospi...
Extending services beyond the hospital walls to its most vulnerable patients?that is the goal of ...
When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...
When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...
At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...
The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...
The Problem A new 192-room patient bed tower was constructed and designed with a new decentraliz...
The Problem In a 2008 medical staff satisfaction survey, 93 percent of Advocate Good Shepherd ph...
The Problem Incorrect patient identification through the registration process increases the pote...
The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...
The Problem MRSA is a virulent bacteria that thrives in the health care setting, putting at grea...
The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...
The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...
The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...
The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...
The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...
The Problem According to a study published online by Health Affairs on January 15, 2008, the med...
The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...
The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...
The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...
The Problem Advocate Lutheran General Hospital admits 32 percent of its emergency department pat...
The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...
The Problem Nurses have always stuggled with balancing time between their workloads. Employee sa...
The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission s...
The Problem Falls can occur at any time during the hospitalization, resulting in complications s...
The Problem In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michi...
The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...
The Problem Bronson's patient safety committee appointed a task force to look at medication erro...
The Problem With the national average of hospital-acquired skin breakdown at 4.8 percent, Bronso...
The Problem Hand hygiene is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infection in ...
The Problem According to a 2006 study published in Nursing Management, 60,000 U.S. hospital pati...
The Problem The infection rate in the NICU at Charleston Area Medical Center was 18 percent in 2...
The Problem DMC wanted to chart a new path for fulfilling its mission of offering the best possi...
The Problem After examining hospital data to pinpoint opportunities to improve, Gundersen Luther...
The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...
The Problem Carolina Medical Center-Mercy worked on patient throughput in its ED, while developi...
From October 2009 to February 2011, MR CHAMMP sponsored 67 programs which were provided to the co...
The Lourdes Center for Public Health works collaboratively with academic and community partners t...
Holy Cross Hospital Health Centers are primary care medical centers that provide affordable servi...