Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

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The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

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In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

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Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...

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Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

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A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...

August 15th, 2016
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Effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships are critical to building a Culture of H...

August 4th, 2016
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Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

September 15th, 2015
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To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

June 2nd, 2015
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The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

May 27th, 2015
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The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

April 11th, 2015
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An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

March 27th, 2015
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Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

March 11th, 2015
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Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

February 5th, 2015
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Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

December 15th, 2014
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Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

October 16th, 2014
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The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

July 30th, 2014
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This updated chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of...

June 17th, 2014
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