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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
BackgroundIllinois Valley Community Hospital is a 49-bed, not-for-profit hospital located in Peru...
Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...
The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...
The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...
The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...
Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...
Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...
A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...
In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...
Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...
The prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) is a major focus for health care orga...
Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...
Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...
Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...
The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...
Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...
This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...
Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...
The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....
The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...
