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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The goal was to reduce the delay in patient care by reducing patient wait times, both from reques...
Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...
The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...
The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...
After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
This project was designed to improve the total health care for patients of a community mental hea...
HPOE has teamed up with the Illinois Hospital Association to highlight its yearly quality awards....
Medical center evidence pointed to a delay in surgery beyond 48 hours for hip fracture patients a...
Presence St. Joseph's Medical Center's project implemented interventions to maintain patient func...
In 2009, a multi-pronged approach involving all stakeholders was launched aimed at early identifi...
A performance improvement project was initiated to reduce the number of elective inductions and c...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...
The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...
In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...
The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...
...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...