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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...
