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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
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 ...
The goal of this project was to standardize protocols for controlling patient pain following tota...
The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), defined as a deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary emboli, is linke...
Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...
The 2012 New England Compounding Center tragedy and ongoing drug shortages have caused a dramatic...
Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...
The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...
The goal of this project was to reduce the incidence of contrast-induced neuropathy (CIN) as a re...
The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...
Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...
The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...
Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...
