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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 406-bed facility in Yuma, Arizona, used best practices and peer-t...
Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...
A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...
Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...
In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...
In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care commi...
Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...
Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...
The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...
Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...
Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...
Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...
The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...
At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...
Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...
Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...
The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...
Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...
St. Mary's Healthcare has an obligation to protect patients from harm and preventing adverse effe...
North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...
Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...
Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...
Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...
The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...
The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...
The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...
The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...
The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...
The Problem Standard care for a patient in cardiac arrest has been cardiopulmonary resuscitation...
The Problem Communication is listed as the leading factor in the root causes of sentinel events ...
