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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...
Falls increased in Thompson Health's inpatient areas in 2009 and 2010, and the number of falls wa...
In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...
To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...
Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...
Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...
Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...
This project addresses the needs of patients at high risk for C. difficile on a complex medical u...
Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...
South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...
Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...
St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...
Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...
With hand hygiene compliance at 37.3 percent, Syosset Hospital implemented a comprehensive approa...
Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...
St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...
