Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

March 1st, 2013
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The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

February 13th, 2013
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Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

June 1st, 2012
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This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

June 1st, 2012
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Fairfield Memorial Hospital identified the need to improve the patient experience in the emergenc...

June 1st, 2012
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As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...

June 1st, 2012
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Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

June 1st, 2012
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A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

June 1st, 2012
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The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...

June 1st, 2012
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Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

June 1st, 2012
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After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

June 1st, 2012
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Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

June 1st, 2012
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The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...

June 1st, 2012
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This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

June 1st, 2012
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A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...

June 1st, 2012
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Rush-Copley Medical Center collaborated with the Kane County Health Department after an outbreak ...

June 1st, 2012
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Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

June 1st, 2012
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Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

June 1st, 2012
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A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

June 1st, 2012
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Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

June 1st, 2012
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Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

June 1st, 2012
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A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

June 1st, 2012
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This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

June 1st, 2012
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At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

June 1st, 2012
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Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

June 1st, 2012
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A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...

June 1st, 2012
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Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

June 1st, 2012
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A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

June 1st, 2012
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Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...

June 1st, 2012
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The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

June 1st, 2012
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Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

June 1st, 2012
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Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

June 1st, 2012
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Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

June 1st, 2012
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The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

June 1st, 2012
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Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

June 1st, 2012
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The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

June 1st, 2012
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The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...

June 1st, 2012
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Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...

June 1st, 2012
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A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...

June 1st, 2012
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The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...

June 1st, 2012
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A multidisciplinary team was formed to increase the rate of risk assessment and appropriate thera...

June 1st, 2012
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As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...

June 1st, 2012
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