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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...
Three patient navigators are used to advocate on behalf of women with abnormal breast findings on...
Goal-Reduce and prevent medical errors by adopting best practices and procedures. The Patient Sa...
The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...
Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...
The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...
At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...
A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...
Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...
The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...
Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...
In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...
This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...
In 2006, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation declared a bold vision for patient safety...
In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...
Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...
Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...
Smart infusion pump technology improves patient safety by providing decision support for nursing ...
