Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

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Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...

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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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This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

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

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Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

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It is both a sprint and a marathon.” That's how a team at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor,...

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Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

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Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

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Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

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

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

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At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

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The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

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The Problem MRSA is a virulent bacteria that thrives in the health care setting, putting at grea...

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The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...

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The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...

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The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...

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The Problem In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michi...

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The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...

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The Problem Hand hygiene is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infection in ...

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The Problem The infection rate in the NICU at Charleston Area Medical Center was 18 percent in 2...

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