Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

April 25th, 2011
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Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...

April 11th, 2011
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March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

March 7th, 2011
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At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago, Nancy Donaldson, R.N., dir...

February 14th, 2011
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One measure in one area in one month: 1-1-1. That's the call-to-action plan employed by Parrish M...

January 24th, 2011
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When Olean (NY) General Hospital decided to improve medication management by using technology, it...

December 13th, 2010
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While many health care-acquired infections are transmitted by personal contact due to poor hand h...

December 6th, 2010
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Making cleanliness everyone's responsibility was part of an infection control and patient safety ...

November 22nd, 2010
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At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...

November 1st, 2010
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Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

September 13th, 2010
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The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon.  The average for Lehi...

August 30th, 2010
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Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...

August 23rd, 2010
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Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

August 9th, 2010
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When Poudre Valley Health System, based in Fort Collins, Colo., started using bedside medication ...

August 2nd, 2010
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A wrong-site surgery on a toe was the catalyst for a comprehensive new surgical time-out initiati...

July 26th, 2010
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For many hospitals, the road to improved quality often begins with transparency, where unexpected...

July 12th, 2010
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Texas Health Resources, a 14-hospital system based in Arlington, wanted to not only reduce ventil...

June 7th, 2010
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For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...

May 24th, 2010
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When Katherine Herrmann, the clinical quality facilitator at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, w...

May 3rd, 2010
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When the Infection Prevention and Control Department of Medical Center of McKinney in McKinney, T...

April 26th, 2010
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