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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...
The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...
The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...
Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...
The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...
In 2009, St. James Mercy Hospital implemented a new quality and patient safety initiative, Achiev...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...
Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...
Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...
In 2005, the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children's Hospital of West Virginia exper...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for approximately 15 percent of all hospital-acquired infections ...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...
The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...
The Problem Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a leading cause of death among all hospitalacquir...
The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...
The Problem Ventilator associated pneumonia are infections that occur in ventilator tubes and ac...
The Problem OSF St. Mary Medical Center, in collaboration with the OSF system-wide Patient Safet...
The Problem The infection rate in the NICU at Charleston Area Medical Center was 18 percent in 2...