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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...
Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...
Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...
A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...
This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...
A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...
Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...
Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...
The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...
The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...
The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...
Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...
A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...
A multidisciplinary team was formed to increase the rate of risk assessment and appropriate thera...
As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...
Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...
Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...
Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...
Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...
Rome Memorial Hospital began this project as a prelude to developing a progressive mobility progr...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...
At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...
Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...
Stern Family Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation tracked hospital readmissions and found ...
Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...
With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...
Continuum Health Partners' pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...
Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...
Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...
The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...
Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...
For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...
Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...
For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...
In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...
As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...
Olean General Hospital is one of only a few community hospitals in the nation to offer a center o...
The average length of stay for patients undergoing single elective total joint replacement surger...
In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...
For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...
This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...
This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. Francis Hospita...
Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...
Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...
In 2006, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation declared a bold vision for patient safety...
In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...
The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...
In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...
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...
In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...
In 2005, Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center's leadership directed implementation of ...
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...
In 2005, North Shore University Hospital's president and chief executive officer made a commitmen...
NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...
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 formed a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement actions that ...
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...