St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

August 30th, 2013
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Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...

August 30th, 2013
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Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

August 27th, 2013
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Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

August 15th, 2013
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The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

August 12th, 2013
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Many of the nation's hospitals and health systems have made progress laying the building blocks f...

July 17th, 2013
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The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

July 16th, 2013
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New Ulm Medical CenterNew Ulm, MN45 Beds The Problem New Ulm Medical Center, a critical access h...

June 1st, 2013

Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...

June 1st, 2013

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

May 13th, 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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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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The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

March 25th, 2013
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Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

March 25th, 2013
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Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

March 25th, 2013
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After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

March 12th, 2013
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Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

March 12th, 2013
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Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

March 6th, 2013
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