Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...

May 1st, 2013
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Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...

May 1st, 2013
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Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

April 29th, 2013
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Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicit...

April 25th, 2013
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This webinar examined best practices and lessons from the field on health care transformation ini...

April 23rd, 2013
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More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...

April 22nd, 2013
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There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...

April 18th, 2013
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Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...

April 15th, 2013
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The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...

April 12th, 2013
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"Metrics for the Second Curve of Health Care" expands on four strategies originally identified in...

April 8th, 2013
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Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...

April 8th, 2013
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April is National Minority Health Month. Launched in April 2001 by the National Minority Health F...

April 1st, 2013
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Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

March 31st, 2013
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Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...

March 31st, 2013
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An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

March 27th, 2013
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According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...

March 26th, 2013
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The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

March 26th, 2013
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The goal was to eliminate all variances in the clinical process measures to ensure that patients ...

March 26th, 2013
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According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...

March 26th, 2013
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The chair files highlight stories of hospitals and health systems that are implementing innovativ...

March 25th, 2013
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