Most hospitals collect race, ethnicity and language data, but a smaller percentage use the data i...

December 17th, 2014
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Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

December 15th, 2014
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Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...

December 8th, 2014
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This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...

December 4th, 2014
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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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Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

October 16th, 2014
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The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...

October 14th, 2014
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OSF Healthcare, Peoria, Ill., wanted to improve the care of patients experiencing an ST elevation...

October 13th, 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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Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...

October 10th, 2014
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Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...

October 9th, 2014
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This infographic provides a sample of the findings from the 2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Ben...

September 25th, 2014
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The nation’s health care delivery system is in the midst of a transition from a fee-for-service a...

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Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

July 31st, 2014
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The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

July 30th, 2014
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Only 20 percent  of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients at the hospital were properly ...

July 11th, 2014
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Only 20 percent  of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients at the hospital were properly ...

July 11th, 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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Improving patient safety, leading multiple improvement efforts and moving to value-based care: Th...

July 7th, 2014
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