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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The Problem The results of blood tests are crucial to physician decision making. At St. Luke's, ...
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 In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...
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 According to the American Heart Association, heart failure affects about 5.7 million...
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 Hand hygiene is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infection in ...
The Problem In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michi...
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 With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...
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 Falls are a serious problem for older people, composing the largest single category ...
The Problem Norwalk Hospital was an early developer and user of health information technology. I...
The Problem Nearly one million people develop pressure ulcers each year, and 60,000 U.S. hospita...
The Problem OSF St. Mary Medical Center, in collaboration with the OSF system-wide Patient Safet...
The Problem Ventilator associated pneumonia are infections that occur in ventilator tubes and ac...
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...
Mercy has participated in developing a network of health care providers and community agencies to...
The Diversity & Inclusion Council was developed to create and sustain an organizational culture t...
The Lourdes Center for Public Health works collaboratively with academic and community partners t...
Mercy Health Partners and Saint Mary's Health Care will be participating in the Improving Langua...
The St. Francis Medical Center Kitty DeGree Breast Health Center employs a full-time breast healt...
In the Pink is a program of Saint Michael's Medical Center and the program provides outreach, edu...
St. Vincent's Medical Center in Bridgeport, Conn., has taken a lead role in creating the Hope Dis...
St. Joseph Community Health in Albuquerque, New Mexico, wants to make sure that all children hav...
Holy Cross Hospital Health Centers are primary care medical centers that provide affordable servi...
In order to significantly impact the patients with HF and reduce their readmission rates at Prove...
The Healthy Start/Healthy Families program primary goal is preventing chronic health problems in ...
The program's goal is to help participants obtain knowledge about their health care options and t...
The Franciscan Clinic was designed with the idea that all employees who carry the hospital's insu...
Equity in Care was initiated by Trinity Health in 2009 and has grown to include identifying poten...
These programs take health education, information and related services directly to community memb...
