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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...
Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...
A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...
Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...
Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...
At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...
A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...
Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...
The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...
The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...
Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...
A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...
The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...
