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Featured All AHA webinars are free of charge but require advance registration. AHA does not offer continui...
MedEx Bedside Prescription Delivery is the very first bedside medication delivery service for hos...
Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...
Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...
Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...
The concept of the Triple Aim is widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
Cox Health System's (Springfield, Mo.) medical leadership created a list of medical indications t...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls a...
It is both a sprint and a marathon.” That's how a team at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor,...
Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...
Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...
The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...
43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...
Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...
Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...
The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...
Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...
Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...
The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
Continuum Health Partners' pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...
Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...
As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...
Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...
An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...
Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...
Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...
Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...
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...
When Kaiser Permanente in California measured its incidence of pressure ulcers in patients three ...
Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...
Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...
Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...
Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...
At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...
Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...
The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon. The average for Lehi...
Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...
For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...
When Katherine Herrmann, the clinical quality facilitator at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, w...
Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...
At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...
The Problem Incorrect patient identification through the registration process increases the pote...
The Problem MRSA is a virulent bacteria that thrives in the health care setting, putting at grea...
The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...
The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...
The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...
The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...
The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...
The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...
The Problem Falls can occur at any time during the hospitalization, resulting in complications s...
The Problem In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michi...
The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...
The Problem Bronson's patient safety committee appointed a task force to look at medication erro...
The Problem With the national average of hospital-acquired skin breakdown at 4.8 percent, Bronso...
The Problem Hand hygiene is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infection in ...
The Problem According to a 2006 study published in Nursing Management, 60,000 U.S. hospital pati...
The Problem The infection rate in the NICU at Charleston Area Medical Center was 18 percent in 2...
The Problem After examining hospital data to pinpoint opportunities to improve, Gundersen Luther...