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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...
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...
In July of 2009, Olean General Hospital embarked on a journey to improve outcomes for cardiac pat...
Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...
Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...
Virtual Health Village is a health information exchange for sharing secure, up-to-date student he...
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 pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...
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...
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...
A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...
