In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...

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The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

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Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

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While the implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ venous thromboembolism ...

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Because the medical center’s lost charge capture related to IV injection and infusions totaled $8...

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The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...

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The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

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Concurrent review of three core measure sets has ensured appropriate and timely patient care. The...

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Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...

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This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...

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Staff at this community-based rural hospital in northwest Illinois that treats more than 18,000 e...

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The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...

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Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...

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The Community Health Network (CHN) targets the socioeconomic determinants of health that are not ...

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Today, about one out of three children and adolescents ages 2-19 in the United States is overweig...

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This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for ...

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The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...

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The goal of this project was to standardize protocols for controlling patient pain following tota...

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Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

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The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...

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