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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...
MedEx Bedside Prescription Delivery is the very first bedside medication delivery service for hos...
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...
Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...
Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...
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...
Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...
Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...
The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
AnMed Health is a non-profit health system and the largest employer in Anderson County, South Car...
In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...
The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...
With four hospitals and more than 120 employed medical providers, St. Charles Health System is a ...
Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...
Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...
Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...
Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...
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...
Atlantic Health SystemNew Jersey1,308 Beds Atlantic Health System owns and operates Morristown M...
Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...
Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...
Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...
Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...
Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...
Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...
Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...
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...
Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...
Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...
Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...
The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...
Baylor Health Care SystemDallas, TX3,653 Beds The Problem The Baylor Health Care System Office o...
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...
Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...
Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...
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...
The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...
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...
In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose ...
AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...
Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...
The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a mu...
Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...
Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...
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 Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...
The Problem A new 192-room patient bed tower was constructed and designed with a new decentraliz...
The Problem In a 2008 medical staff satisfaction survey, 93 percent of Advocate Good Shepherd ph...
The Problem Incorrect patient identification through the registration process increases the pote...
The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...
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 Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...
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 According to a study published online by Health Affairs on January 15, 2008, the med...
The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...
The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...
The Problem Advocate Lutheran General Hospital admits 32 percent of its emergency department pat...
The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...
The Problem Nurses have always stuggled with balancing time between their workloads. Employee sa...
The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission s...
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 DMC wanted to chart a new path for fulfilling its mission of offering the best possi...
The Problem After examining hospital data to pinpoint opportunities to improve, Gundersen Luther...
The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...
The Problem Carolina Medical Center-Mercy worked on patient throughput in its ED, while developi...
From October 2009 to February 2011, MR CHAMMP sponsored 67 programs which were provided to the co...
The Lourdes Center for Public Health works collaboratively with academic and community partners t...
Holy Cross Hospital Health Centers are primary care medical centers that provide affordable servi...