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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...
According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...
This project addresses the health care system's strategic initiative to ensure interdisciplinary ...
The hospital identified an opportunity to improve its discharge planning process to allow more ti...
Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...
After reducing health care-acquired deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE) in 2011,...
Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...
Restraint documentation was a challenge at the hospital for multiple reasons, including the imple...
In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...
The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...
Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...
While the implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ venous thromboembolism ...
The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...
Concurrent review of three core measure sets has ensured appropriate and timely patient care. The...
Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...
This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...
Staff at this community-based rural hospital in northwest Illinois that treats more than 18,000 e...
The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...
Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...
This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for ...