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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...
The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...
Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...
Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...
Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...
St. Joseph Regional Health Center went on a Lean journey to not only save money, but improve the ...
Lean transformation means improved patient care, employee satisfaction and reduced costs as MSHA ...
Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...
St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...
The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...
Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...
The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...
As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...
In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...
The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...
The Problem Wait times in the hospital's inpatient rehabilitation center were unacceptable; some ...
The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...
The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...
