Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...

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

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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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Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...

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Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

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

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Cox Health System's (Springfield, Mo.) medical leadership created a list of medical indications t...

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Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

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Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

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The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...

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

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AnMed Health is a non-profit health system and the largest employer in Anderson County, South Car...

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In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...

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The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...

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With four hospitals and more than 120 employed medical providers, St. Charles Health System is a ...

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Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...

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Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...

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Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...

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

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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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The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

February 13th, 2013
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Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...

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Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...

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

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Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

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

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Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...

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Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

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

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Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

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The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

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Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...

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

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Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...

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The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

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Baylor Health Care SystemDallas, TX3,653 Beds The Problem The Baylor Health Care System Office o...

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

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Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...

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

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Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

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Continuum Health Partners'  pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...

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Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...

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As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...

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

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An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...

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Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...

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

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Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

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Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

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The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

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Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

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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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Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds  The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...

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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 Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...

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The Problem A new 192-room patient bed tower was constructed and designed with a new decentraliz...

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The Problem In a 2008 medical staff satisfaction survey, 93 percent of Advocate Good Shepherd ph...

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The Problem Incorrect patient identification through the registration process increases the pote...

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The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...

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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 Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...

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

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The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...

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

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The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...

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The Problem According to a study published online by Health Affairs on January 15, 2008, the med...

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The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

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The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...

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The Problem Advocate Lutheran General Hospital admits 32 percent of its emergency department pat...

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

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The Problem Nurses have always stuggled with balancing time between their workloads. Employee sa...

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The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission s...

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The Problem Falls can occur at any time during the hospitalization, resulting in complications s...

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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 Bronson's patient safety committee appointed a task force to look at medication erro...

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The Problem With the national average of hospital-acquired skin breakdown at 4.8 percent, Bronso...

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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 According to a 2006 study published in Nursing Management, 60,000 U.S. hospital pati...

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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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The Problem DMC wanted to chart a new path for fulfilling its mission of offering the best possi...

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The Problem After examining hospital data to pinpoint opportunities to improve, Gundersen Luther...

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The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...

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The Problem Carolina Medical Center-Mercy worked on patient throughput in its ED, while developi...

June 1st, 2009
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From October 2009 to February 2011, MR CHAMMP sponsored 67 programs which were provided to the co...

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The Lourdes Center for Public Health works collaboratively with academic and community partners t...

January 26th, 2009
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Holy Cross Hospital Health Centers are primary care medical centers that provide affordable servi...

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