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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...
Rome Memorial Hospital began this project as a prelude to developing a progressive mobility progr...
At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...
Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...
Stern Family Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation tracked hospital readmissions and found ...
Continuum Health Partners' pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...
Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...
Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...
The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...
Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...
For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...
Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...
In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...
Olean General Hospital is one of only a few community hospitals in the nation to offer a center o...
The average length of stay for patients undergoing single elective total joint replacement surger...
In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...
