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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has help...
Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...
This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...
Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...
Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...
The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...
Patient safety is the number one priority at this facility. After discussing medication errors at...
Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...
In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...
Hospital readmissions are costly for both patients and facilities. At the time of discharge, pati...
The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...
An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...
The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...
The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...
NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...
Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...
In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...
The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...
The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...
During the 2013-14 influenza season, an emergency preparedness mass influenza vaccination drill w...
