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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
Sentara HealthcareNorfolk, VA Sentara Healthcare is a nonprofit health care system headquartered...
Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...
A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
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...
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 ...
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...
A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...
Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
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...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
