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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Washington Heights, a community impacted by 770 cases of domestic violence a day, now has the Fam...
Restraint documentation was a challenge at the hospital for multiple reasons, including the imple...
Because the medical center’s lost charge capture related to IV injection and infusions totaled $8...
The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...
Turnaround time for immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains in the laboratory of a 500 bed tertiary car...
The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...
The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...
The medical center has made significant progress in improving physician-patient communication thr...
A local urology department partnered with the performance improvement department to identify oppo...
Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...
The blood bank relocated to a new hospital facility while the labor and delivery (L&D) unit remai...
Codman Square Health Center in downtown Dorchester, MA exemplifies how a health center can build ...
Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...
CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...
Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...
Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...
In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...
The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...
The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...
Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...
Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...
The goal was to reduce the delay in patient care by reducing patient wait times, both from reques...
Medical center evidence pointed to a delay in surgery beyond 48 hours for hip fracture patients a...
The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...
Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...
With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...
Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...
For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...
To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...
In 2005, Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center's leadership directed implementation of ...
The Problem Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is one of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant ba...
The ProblemUrinary tract infections are the most common infections in hospitals. The majority are...
The Problem Advocate Lutheran General Hospital admits 32 percent of its emergency department pat...
