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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...
The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...
In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...
Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...
The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...
Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...
University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...
Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...
This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...
Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...
A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...
The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...
