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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 ...
Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...
At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...
This project addresses the health care system's strategic initiative to ensure interdisciplinary ...
The hospital identified an opportunity to improve its discharge planning process to allow more ti...
Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...
In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...
The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...
Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...
The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...
Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...
The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...
Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...
The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...
Limited provider appointment availability in the clinic was causing delays for patients seeking c...
The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...
Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...
Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...
The goal of this project was to reduce the incidence of contrast-induced neuropathy (CIN) as a re...
The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...
The health system did not have an adequate process for notifying staff when a patient was on cont...
In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...
The project focused on managing sepsis in the emergency department and in admitted patients, with...
The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...
High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...
Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...
This project involves raising awareness and expanding the palliative care program at HSHS St. Joh...
Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...
Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...
The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...
This academic medical center developed and implemented a program to improve outcomes and reduce r...
The Lung Partners Primary Respiratory Care at the Crouse Hospital is managing the needs of patien...
The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Base...
An integrated health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avera Health serves patie...
Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gundersen Health System is an integrated tertiary referral center ...
Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...
For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...
Mercy Medical Center committed to delivering the highest quality care with the greatest efficienc...
As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...
Telemedicine, successfully used in many areas of medicine, has yet to be evaluated during the reh...
Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...
As part of an effort to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognized ...
Many patients who find themselves in a situation where they are experiencing worsening symptoms o...
Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...
For the past 30 years, the Healthcare for the Homeless Program has addressed the health needs of ...
The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...
At Boston Medical Center, a multidisciplinary team developed a strategy to reduce pulmonary compl...
The Hospital Group focused on reducing the readmission rate on the rehabilitation service unit (R...
MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...
Approximately 28 percent of the hospital's patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) are readm...