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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The goal of this project was to standardize protocols for controlling patient pain following tota...
The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), defined as a deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary emboli, is linke...
Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...
The 2012 New England Compounding Center tragedy and ongoing drug shortages have caused a dramatic...
Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...
The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...
The goal of this project was to reduce the incidence of contrast-induced neuropathy (CIN) as a re...
The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...
Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...
The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...
Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...
Patient falls during hospitalization can lead to increased inpatient care costs, decreased patien...
The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...
The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...
The health system did not have an adequate process for notifying staff when a patient was on cont...
As identified in its 2014 Culture of Safety survey, the hospital’s overall mean score for the sta...
A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...
In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...
A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...
