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The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...
The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...
TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...
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...
The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...
Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...
The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...
Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...
Teamwork champions on a diverse change team: These were key as The MetroHealth System in Clevelan...
This infographic provides a summary of the HPOE guide “Partnering to Improve Quality and Safety: ...
This New York Times blog was written by a resident in internal medicine at Massachusetts General ...
This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...
Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...
Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...
Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...
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 ...
A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...
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...
SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...
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...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...
The only acceptable number of avoidable patient harms is zero. At Ponca City (Okla.) Medical Cent...
Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...
Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, used best practice...
Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...
Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...
