Schuyler Hospital’s Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Schuyler initiative offers various opport...

October 3rd, 2017
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Montefiore Medical Center’s goal was to increase access and supply of healthy food and beverage o...

October 3rd, 2017
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To better serve its patients and reduce the effects of ineffective pain management, Mercy Hospita...

October 3rd, 2017
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Washington Heights, a community impacted by 770 cases of domestic violence a day, now has the Fam...

October 3rd, 2017
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The disease management process at Bassett Medical Center was positively impacted after the hospit...

July 17th, 2017
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Nurses at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, part of Catholic Health, introduced a Diabetes Education Qui...

June 15th, 2017
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Serious dental problems can affect the overall well-being of an individual. Therefore, Mount St. ...

March 7th, 2017
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Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...

October 26th, 2016
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Northern Westchester Hospital is improving their patients’ experience through the Food Is Care pr...

September 26th, 2016
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The St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center created a Hypoglycemic Task Force to recognize and decrea...

September 26th, 2016
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This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...

September 16th, 2016
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Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...

September 16th, 2016
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The Community Health Network (CHN) targets the socioeconomic determinants of health that are not ...

September 16th, 2016
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Today, about one out of three children and adolescents ages 2-19 in the United States is overweig...

September 16th, 2016
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Concussions are a growing problem for young athletes. The hospital’s overall goal is to educate a...

September 16th, 2016
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The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...

September 16th, 2016
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As a health organization that serves communities disproportionately affected by asthma, Sinai Hea...

September 16th, 2016
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The University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital recently develope...

August 19th, 2016
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Carthage Area Hospital is improving patient and employee experiences by providing them with fresh...

August 19th, 2016
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Demand for Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) accelerated after it started in 1994 as a m...

June 16th, 2016
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Codman Square Health Center in downtown Dorchester, MA exemplifies how a health center can build ...

June 16th, 2016
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North Country HealthCare is a federally qualified health center serving fourteen communities in n...

June 16th, 2016
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Claremont Village is a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing development in the ...

June 16th, 2016
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As one of only two hospitals in Yuma County, Yuma District Hospital and Clinic (YDHC) can ascerta...

June 16th, 2016
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In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

April 22nd, 2016
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Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

April 22nd, 2016
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Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

February 29th, 2016
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The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier ...

February 29th, 2016
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The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

February 29th, 2016
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The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to trans...

February 29th, 2016
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Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

February 29th, 2016
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Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...

February 29th, 2016
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Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

February 29th, 2016
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A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

February 29th, 2016
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As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

February 29th, 2016
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Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

February 29th, 2016
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In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

February 29th, 2016
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The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

February 29th, 2016
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The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

February 29th, 2016
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North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

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The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

February 29th, 2016
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Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

February 29th, 2016
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At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...

February 29th, 2016
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Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

February 29th, 2016
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The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...

February 29th, 2016
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North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

February 29th, 2016
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TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

February 29th, 2016
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Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

February 29th, 2016
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Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

February 29th, 2016
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As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...

February 29th, 2016
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Through this initiative, Highland Healthcare Associates IPA seeks to improve the physician's expe...

February 29th, 2016
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Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

February 29th, 2016
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New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...

February 29th, 2016
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Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

February 29th, 2016
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The Care Tracker program at Signature Healthcare collates data from multiple sources, including b...

February 29th, 2016
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Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...

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Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

February 29th, 2016
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Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

February 29th, 2016
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The School Based Care Coordination Program supports at-risk youth and families in two school dist...

February 29th, 2016
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Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...

February 29th, 2016
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CDC data shows that over 70 percent of patients with pre-diabetes will develop type 2 diabetes du...

February 29th, 2016
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To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

February 29th, 2016
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The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...

February 29th, 2016
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In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...

February 29th, 2016
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The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...

February 29th, 2016
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Hallmark Health System, Inc., is participating in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (C...

February 29th, 2016
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With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...

February 29th, 2016
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At Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, the pediatric intensive care unit has been implem...

February 29th, 2016
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Dedicated to eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections, North Shore Medical Center...

February 29th, 2016
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Approximately 28 percent of the hospital's patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) are readm...

February 29th, 2016
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Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...

February 29th, 2016
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This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

February 29th, 2016
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T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...

February 29th, 2016
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The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

November 10th, 2015

This case study presents the story of CareSouth Carolina and the Northeastern Rural Health Networ...

November 10th, 2015
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CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

November 10th, 2015
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The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

October 6th, 2015
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Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...

September 14th, 2015

In July of 2009, Olean General Hospital embarked on a journey to improve outcomes for cardiac pat...

September 14th, 2015

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

September 9th, 2015

NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...

September 9th, 2015

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

September 9th, 2015

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

September 1st, 2015

The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

July 21st, 2015

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

July 1st, 2015
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Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

June 22nd, 2015
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The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

June 16th, 2015
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Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

June 16th, 2015
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The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

June 16th, 2015
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After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

June 10th, 2015
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National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

June 10th, 2015
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July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...

June 8th, 2015
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When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

June 8th, 2015
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As part of Blueprint for Health (a statewide, public-private initiative authorized by the Vermont...

June 7th, 2015
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Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

June 4th, 2015
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The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

June 3rd, 2015
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To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

June 2nd, 2015
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In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...

May 5th, 2015
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United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

April 21st, 2015
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