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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...
North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...
The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...
Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...
Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...
The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...
St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...
The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...
South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...
The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...
Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...
Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...