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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...
Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...
University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...
A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...
Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...
This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...
Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...
A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...
The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...
This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...
A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...
Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...
Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...
A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...
Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...
Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...
A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...
