The disease management process at Bassett Medical Center was positively impacted after the hospit...

July 17th, 2017
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This week, June 4-10, 2017, the AHA's Association for Community Health Improvement is celebrating...

June 5th, 2017
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This infographic provides a summary of the Association for Community Health Improvement’s Communi...

May 16th, 2017
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There is a critical need to elevate the discussion around workforce planning and development to e...

February 22nd, 2017
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When hospitals engage community members and patients in the community health assessment process, ...

December 1st, 2016
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Increasingly, hospitals and health systems are forming partnerships to attain the new and demandi...

November 15th, 2016
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  The patient experience is more important today than ever before, with payments tied to patie...

September 21st, 2016
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According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...

September 16th, 2016
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At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...

September 16th, 2016
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Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...

September 16th, 2016
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After reducing health care-acquired deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE) in 2011,...

September 16th, 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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Restraint documentation was a challenge at the hospital for multiple reasons, including the imple...

September 16th, 2016
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In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...

September 16th, 2016
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Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

September 16th, 2016
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Because the medical center’s lost charge capture related to IV injection and infusions totaled $8...

September 16th, 2016
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The goal of this project was to standardize protocols for controlling patient pain following tota...

September 16th, 2016
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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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Venous thromboembolism (VTE), defined as a deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary emboli, is linke...

September 16th, 2016
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The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

September 16th, 2016
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