Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

February 1st, 2012
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Continuum Health Partners'  pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...

February 1st, 2012
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Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...

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As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...

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Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

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An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...

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Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...

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The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

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Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

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Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

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The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

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Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

February 1st, 2012
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In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose ...

January 1st, 2012
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AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

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Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

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The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a mu...

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Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

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Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds  The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...

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At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

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The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

September 21st, 2009
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