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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...
Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...
The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...
In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...
Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...
The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...
Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...
An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...
The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...
Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care thr...
Blood transfusions to treat anemia can have a significant impact on patient outcomes. It was reco...
The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...
The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identi...
Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...
The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...
The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...
Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Outcomes Improvements, 30-Day Readmissions and Morta...
Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...
The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...
Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...
The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...
The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...
Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...
After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...
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...
The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...
The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...
SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...
Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...
St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...
A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...
Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...
Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...
A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...
The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improve...
In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...
Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...
Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...
Truven Health Analytics discusses key areas of focus for hospitals and care systems that want to ...