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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Nurses at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, part of Catholic Health, introduced a Diabetes Education Qui...
Serious dental problems can affect the overall well-being of an individual. Therefore, Mount St. ...
The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...
The University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital recently develope...
In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...
The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...
Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...
In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...
The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...
The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...
North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...
The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...
The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...
Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...
New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...
Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...
Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...
Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...
The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...
In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...
The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...
Hallmark Health System, Inc., is participating in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (C...
With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...
At Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, the pediatric intensive care unit has been implem...
Dedicated to eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections, North Shore Medical Center...
This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...
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...
Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...
Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...
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...
In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...
Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....
Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...
The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...
The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care began in 1972. Home-based primary ca...
Children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function and survival rates if their body mass ind...
The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...
What is it? Now in its third year, Camp Med is a three-day, hands-on experience at the hospital t...
Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program is the largest and most comprehensive school-ba...
OSF Healthcare, Peoria, Ill., wanted to improve the care of patients experiencing an ST elevation...
Care for people with multiple chronic health conditions is often fragmented, resulting in increas...
Healthy Communities of Clinton County Coalition Two teams of community members--a coalition of h...
Fletcher Allen Health Care's Community Benefit CommitteeBurlington, VT About the Initiative:In ...