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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Smart infusion pump technology improves patient safety by providing decision support for nursing ...
Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...
St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...
Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...
The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...
Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...
In 2008, a project was underway to renovate Southampton Hospital's emergency department (upgradin...
In 2010, Southampton Hospital discovered that its process for checking and maintaining equipment/...
At Mountainside Residential Care Center's resident council, residents requested an improved dinin...
Medication, in addition to other treatment options, is an integral part of the care provided to l...
An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...
North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...
Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...
As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...
In 2009, North Central Bronx Hospital analyzed data from its diabetes registry to identify opport...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...
Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...
In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...
Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...
San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...
University of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MS623 Beds The Problem University of Mississipp...
Baylor Health Care SystemDallas, TX3,653 Beds The Problem The Baylor Health Care System Office o...
Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...
Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...
University HospitalsCleveland, OH1,032 Beds The Problem To address the changing demographics of ...
The hospital partnered with the Wyoming Department of Health to work to eliminate health disparit...
AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...
Compassionate Care is a nationally recognized case management program through which Aetna's Medic...
The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a mu...
In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose ...
Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...
New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York, NY2,264 Beds The Problem New York-Presbyterian Hospital’...
Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...
Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...
Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...
SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...
AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...
Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...
Commonwealth Care Alliance Boston, MA The Problem Commonwealth Care Alliance, which functions bo...
Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY1,418 Beds The Problem Montefiore Medical Center is a large, a...
Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...
Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...
Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...
The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...
This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...
Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...
The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...
This article presents four case studies of effective community and academic partnership that impr...
The Problem Administrative burdens and inefficient processes left nurses spending just one-third...
In 2005, the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children's Hospital of West Virginia exper...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for approximately 15 percent of all hospital-acquired infections ...
The Problem Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although S...
The Problem The average ED length of stay was 413 minutes (6 hours, 53 minutes). Fourteen percen...
The Problem ThedaCare selected its radiation oncology (rad-onc) department to kick off a systemw...
The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...
The Problem Vanderbilt's project didn't address a problem so much as it focused on a goal: to be...
The Problem Like many hospitals, Westmoreland struggled with significant ED crowding and patient...
The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...
As a result of care coordination activities with Medicare patients, the opportunity to improve pa...
The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...
At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...
The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...
The Problem A new 192-room patient bed tower was constructed and designed with a new decentraliz...
The Problem In a 2008 medical staff satisfaction survey, 93 percent of Advocate Good Shepherd ph...
The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...
The Problem The organization was recording more patient falls than its leadership considered acc...
The Problem Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is one of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant ba...
The Problem Wait times in the hospital's inpatient rehabilitation center were unacceptable; some ...
The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...
The Problem Incorrect patient identification through the registration process increases the pote...
The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...
The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...
The Problem MRSA is a virulent bacteria that thrives in the health care setting, putting at grea...
The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...
The Problem In 2004, Faxton Hospital and St. Luke's-Memorial Hospital merged. The leaders of the...
The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...
The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...
The Problem Hazleton General Hospital officials were unhappy with their performance on a number ...
The Problem Hazleton General Hospital is committed to providing compassionate, patient-centered,...
Health care acquired infections in U.S. hospitals account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 a...
Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...
The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...
The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...
The Problem According to a study published online by Health Affairs on January 15, 2008, the med...
The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...
The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...
The Problem MRSA accounts for more than 18,000 deaths annually nationwide, according to the CDC....
The ProblemUrinary tract infections are the most common infections in hospitals. The majority are...
The ProblemMajor abdominal surgery, such as elective colon surgery or major hernia repair, is hig...
The ProblemMedication errors in the health care delivery system are the most common type of error...
The Problem The Pitt Country Memorial Hospital leadership team decided to reduce surgical compli...
The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...
The Problem Standard care for a patient in cardiac arrest has been cardiopulmonary resuscitation...
The long-term care provider decided to tackle C. diff infections. Illness from C. diff commonly a...
The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30...
The Problem Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a leading cause of death among all hospitalacquir...
The Problem Communication is listed as the leading factor in the root causes of sentinel events ...
The Problem St. Francis struggled getting non-emergent patients from the door to an ED bed in a ...
