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Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
“Mobility is medicine,” say clinicians and volunteers working together to improve patient care at...
Nearly 1,500 U.S. hospitals are working to eliminate patient harm and reduce hospital readmission...
Approximately 11,000 fatal patient falls occur in U.S. hospitals annually, but hospitals using ne...
Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the flagship publication of the AHA, has put together a web...
The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...
Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...
In 2009, St. James Mercy Hospital implemented a new quality and patient safety initiative, Achiev...
In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...
An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...
The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...
Falls increased in Thompson Health's inpatient areas in 2009 and 2010, and the number of falls wa...
Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...
The Problem The organization was recording more patient falls than its leadership considered acc...
The Problem After examining hospital data to pinpoint opportunities to improve, Gundersen Luther...
The Problem Falls are a serious problem for older people, composing the largest single category ...
The Problem Falls can occur at any time during the hospitalization, resulting in complications s...
