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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...
The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...
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 ...
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...
Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...
The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...
To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, Ill., created a total knee and hip joint replacement center of excel...
Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...
Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...