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Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...
A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...
Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...
A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...
Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...
The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...
The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...
A performance improvement project was initiated to reduce the number of elective inductions and c...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...
...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...
A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...
The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...
To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...
The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...
In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...
The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...
The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care began in 1972. Home-based primary ca...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...
U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...
