This weekend kicks off a not-to-be-missed event for hospital and health system leaders: the AHA’s...

May 2nd, 2017

In response to a rapidly transforming health care environment, hospitals and health systems acros...

January 19th, 2017
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BackgroundIllinois Valley Community Hospital is a 49-bed, not-for-profit hospital located in Peru...

January 19th, 2017
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Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...

November 7th, 2016
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Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

September 16th, 2016
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The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

September 16th, 2016
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The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...

September 16th, 2016
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The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...

September 16th, 2016
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Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...

September 16th, 2016
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Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

September 16th, 2016
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A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...

September 16th, 2016
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In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

September 16th, 2016
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Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...

September 16th, 2016
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The prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) is a major focus for health care orga...

September 16th, 2016
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Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

September 16th, 2016
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Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...

April 25th, 2016
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When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

April 11th, 2016
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Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

March 14th, 2016
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Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...

March 14th, 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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