Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

October 6th, 2015
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In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

October 6th, 2015
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Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...

October 6th, 2015
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Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

September 14th, 2015
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An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...

September 14th, 2015
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The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...

September 14th, 2015
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Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

September 9th, 2015

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

July 27th, 2015
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Leadership is needed to direct resources and programs aimed at reducing health care disparitities...

July 7th, 2015
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In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

July 1st, 2015
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Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center established the Quality Excellence Council at the beg...

June 23rd, 2015
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Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

June 22nd, 2015
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Their journey to eliminate falls with injury started last year, working towards a safety culture ...

June 18th, 2015
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Patients are often poorly prepared to manage acute and chronic conditions following their dischar...

June 18th, 2015
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Catheter-associated urinary tract infection is the second most commonly reported hospital-associa...

June 18th, 2015
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Central line-associated bloodstream infections continue to be associated with high costs and mort...

June 18th, 2015
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During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

June 17th, 2015
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Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

June 17th, 2015
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The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

June 17th, 2015
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During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

June 17th, 2015
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