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New Ulm Medical CenterNew Ulm, MN45 Beds The Problem New Ulm Medical Center, a critical access h...
Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...
Mt. Ascutney Hospital and Health CenterWindsor, VT60 Beds The Problem Mt. Ascutney Hospital and ...
Yuma District HospitalYuma, CO12 Beds The Problem Yuma District Hospital, located in Yuma, Color...
Cheyenne Regional Medical CenterCheyenne, WY222 Beds The Problem Cheyenne Regional Medical Cente...
This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...
Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...
Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...
In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...
Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc., have had a long-...
Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center partner on several initi...
Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...
Patients may be Christian, Jew, Muslim or of any other religious expression—at Lutheran Medical C...
Young children who missed more than half of recommended well-child visits had up to twice the ris...
Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...
Davis Health System is a health care network that includes 90-bed Davis Memorial Hospital, 12-bed...
Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...
Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...
ProMedica’s (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the peop...
Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...
Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...
Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...
Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...
Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicit...
This webinar examined best practices and lessons from the field on health care transformation ini...
More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...
There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...
Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...
The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...
"Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care" expands on four strategies originally identified in...
Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...
April is National Minority Health Month. Launched in April 2001 by the National Minority Health F...
Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...
Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...
The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...
The goal was to eliminate all variances in the clinical process measures to ensure that patients ...
According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...
The chair files highlight stories of hospitals and health systems that are implementing innovativ...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...
Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...
In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...
The AHA's Committee on Research developed the report, "Engaging Health Care Users: A Framework fo...
HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...
This webinar from Health Resources in Action discusses the benefits of hospital-community collabo...
Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...
The Backyard Initiative at Allina Health, based in Minnesota, is truly taking care beyond hospita...
Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agend...