March 12-18, 2017, is Patient Safety Awareness Week, led by the National Patient Safety Foundatio...

March 13th, 2017
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Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

September 16th, 2016
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Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...

September 16th, 2016
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A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...

August 15th, 2016
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Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three exampl...

October 28th, 2015
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Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

June 17th, 2015
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Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

June 17th, 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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Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

June 4th, 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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Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

May 29th, 2015
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Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

May 15th, 2015
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This toolkit from OSHA is availalbe to the public and contains references, educational resources ...

May 8th, 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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Hospitals and care systems across the country are engaged in quality improvement efforts to impro...

September 23rd, 2014
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Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and intrusions pose risks for every hospital and its reputation. Wh...

August 15th, 2014
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With the rise in higher-deductible health plans and coinsurance, Americans are paying an increasi...

August 15th, 2014
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The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...

July 11th, 2014
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Hospitals pursuing environmental sustainability are not only contributing to healthier communitie...

June 25th, 2014
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