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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...
The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...
This case study presents the story of CareSouth Carolina and the Northeastern Rural Health Networ...
Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has help...
CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...
Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...
This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...
Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...
Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...
The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...
Patient safety is the number one priority at this facility. After discussing medication errors at...
Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...
In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...
Hospital readmissions are costly for both patients and facilities. At the time of discharge, pati...
Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...
The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...
The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...
Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...
An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...
The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...
Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care thr...
Blood transfusions to treat anemia can have a significant impact on patient outcomes. It was reco...
The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...
The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identi...
The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...
North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...
Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...
The NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System implemented multidisciplinary ICU mobilization teams t...
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...
In July of 2009, Olean General Hospital embarked on a journey to improve outcomes for cardiac pat...
Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...
NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...
White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital Center’s interdisciplinary team developed a disinfection procedure ...
Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...
Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...
Virtual Health Village is a health information exchange for sharing secure, up-to-date student he...
The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...
The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...
Leadership is needed to direct resources and programs aimed at reducing health care disparitities...
In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...
Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center established the Quality Excellence Council at the beg...
Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...
The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...
The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...
Their journey to eliminate falls with injury started last year, working towards a safety culture ...
During the 2013-14 influenza season, an emergency preparedness mass influenza vaccination drill w...
The Healthy You program was designed to enhance whole person health of the hospital's team member...