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Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...
Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...
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...
A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...
Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...
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 ...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...
The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...
...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...
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...
Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...
A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...
The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...
Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...
This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...
The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...
Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, used best practice...
Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...
Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...
Midstate Medical Center, a 134-bed facility in Meriden, Connecticut, committed to reducing harm a...
NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...
Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...
Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...
St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...
Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 406-bed facility in Yuma, Arizona, used best practices and peer-t...
