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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...
This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...
A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...
Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...
As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...
For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...