At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...

September 16th, 2016
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In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...

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The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...

September 16th, 2016
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The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...

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Limited provider appointment availability in the clinic was causing delays for patients seeking c...

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The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

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High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

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For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...

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Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...

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Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...

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The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...

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Medical center evidence pointed to a delay in surgery beyond 48 hours for hip fracture patients a...

June 9th, 2015
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A performance improvement project was initiated to reduce the number of elective inductions and c...

June 8th, 2015
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The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

June 8th, 2015
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In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

June 8th, 2015
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...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...

June 8th, 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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The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

April 11th, 2015
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An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

March 27th, 2015
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Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, Ill., created a total knee and hip joint replacement center of excel...

January 5th, 2015
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Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...

November 17th, 2014
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Presence St. Mary’s Hospital, Kankakee, Ill., improved readmission rates for heart failure patien...

October 10th, 2014
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Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...

October 10th, 2014
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During 2011, the hospital joined the IHA Project Re-Engineering Discharge (RED) collaborative to ...

July 11th, 2014
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