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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...
As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...
This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...
Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...
The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...
Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...
The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...
Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...
At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...
Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...
Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...
