For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...

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In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...

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As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

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Olean General Hospital is one of only a few community hospitals in the nation to offer a center o...

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The average length of stay for patients undergoing single elective total joint replacement surger...

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In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...

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For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...

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This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...

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This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. Francis Hospita...

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Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...

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Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

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The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

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In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...

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In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

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Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

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To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

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Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

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Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

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In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

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In 2005, Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center's leadership directed implementation of ...

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