Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...

October 26th, 2016
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At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...

September 16th, 2016
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Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

September 16th, 2016
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In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...

September 16th, 2016
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The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

September 16th, 2016
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Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

September 16th, 2016
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Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...

September 16th, 2016
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The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...

September 16th, 2016
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Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...

September 16th, 2016
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Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...

September 16th, 2016
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The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...

September 16th, 2016
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In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

September 16th, 2016
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High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

September 16th, 2016
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Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...

September 16th, 2016
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Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

September 16th, 2016
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For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...

February 29th, 2016
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Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

February 29th, 2016
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The Hospital Group focused on reducing the readmission rate on the rehabilitation service unit (R...

February 29th, 2016
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MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...

February 29th, 2016
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Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

September 14th, 2015
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Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

September 9th, 2015

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

July 27th, 2015
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Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

June 16th, 2015
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The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

June 16th, 2015
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In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

June 8th, 2015
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A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

June 8th, 2015
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To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

June 2nd, 2015
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The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

May 27th, 2015
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The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

April 11th, 2015
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An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

March 27th, 2015
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Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

February 5th, 2015
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Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

December 15th, 2014
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Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...

December 11th, 2013