A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

May 28th, 2015
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The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

May 27th, 2015
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Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...

May 18th, 2015
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At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...

May 11th, 2015
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Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...

May 4th, 2015
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United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

April 21st, 2015
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South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...

April 21st, 2015
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Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

April 21st, 2015
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Engaging Leadership and Governance in Quality and Patient Safety Initiatives Ensuring safe, high...

April 15th, 2015
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Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...

April 6th, 2015

Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...

April 3rd, 2015
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This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...

April 3rd, 2015
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The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...

April 3rd, 2015
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April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...

March 30th, 2015
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A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...

March 28th, 2015
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To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

March 26th, 2015
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The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

March 22nd, 2015
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This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

March 10th, 2015
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Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

February 20th, 2015

Avista Adventist Hospital, a 114-bed facility in Louisville, Colorado, used best practices and pe...

February 5th, 2015
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