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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...
In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...
The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...
The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...
Limited provider appointment availability in the clinic was causing delays for patients seeking c...
The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...
High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...
Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...
Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...
The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...
This academic medical center developed and implemented a program to improve outcomes and reduce r...
The Lung Partners Primary Respiratory Care at the Crouse Hospital is managing the needs of patien...
The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...
Medical center evidence pointed to a delay in surgery beyond 48 hours for hip fracture patients a...
A performance improvement project was initiated to reduce the number of elective inductions and c...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...
...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...
The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...
