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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
Turnaround time for immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains in the laboratory of a 500 bed tertiary car...
The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...
Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...
The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...
The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...
Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...
Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended ...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...
The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...
Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...
Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...
St. Joseph Regional Health Center went on a Lean journey to not only save money, but improve the ...
Lean transformation means improved patient care, employee satisfaction and reduced costs as MSHA ...
The Florida Hospital Association highlights its quality improvement initiatives with several repo...
Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...
St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...
Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...
Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...
