MedEx Bedside Prescription Delivery is the very first bedside medication delivery service for hos...

October 26th, 2016
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When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

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Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...

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The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

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The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...

July 27th, 2015
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The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

July 1st, 2015
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The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

June 3rd, 2015
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Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...

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The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

March 22nd, 2015
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This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

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University Hospitals, Cleveland, is advancing multiple care equity initiatives. The over 2,000-be...

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Building a culture that is inclusive and founded on principles of diversity was a “key destinatio...

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Community members are integral partners at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania, helping ...

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Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls a...

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A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

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Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...

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Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

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A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

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Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

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Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

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Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...

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Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

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Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

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43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

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Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

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Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

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Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

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The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

February 1st, 2012
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Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

February 1st, 2012
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In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose ...

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AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

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Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

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The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a mu...

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Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

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Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

August 22nd, 2011
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Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

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Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...

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The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

July 31st, 2009
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The Problem Nurses have always stuggled with balancing time between their workloads. Employee sa...

July 1st, 2009
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