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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...
Albany Medical Center developed the Child Advocacy Resident Education program that aims to improv...
In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...
Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...
Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...
Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...
The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...
In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...
Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...
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...
Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...
Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...
Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...
Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...
Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...
The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...
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 The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...
The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...
The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...
Holy Cross Hospital Health Centers are primary care medical centers that provide affordable servi...
