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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
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 ...
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...
Pertussis is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis...
Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...
In 2009, St. James Mercy Hospital implemented a new quality and patient safety initiative, Achiev...
St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...
