MedEx Bedside Prescription Delivery is the very first bedside medication delivery service for hos...

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Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

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Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...

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Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...

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The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

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This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

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The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

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Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

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Cox Health System's (Springfield, Mo.) medical leadership created a list of medical indications t...

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The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

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Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls a...

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It is both a sprint and a marathon.” That's how a team at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor,...

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Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...

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Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

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The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

February 13th, 2013
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43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

December 10th, 2012
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Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

November 19th, 2012
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"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

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Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

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Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

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The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

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Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

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Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

February 1st, 2012
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The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

February 1st, 2012
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Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

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Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

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Continuum Health Partners'  pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...

February 1st, 2012
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Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...

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As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...

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Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

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An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...

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Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...

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Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

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Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

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The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

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Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

February 1st, 2012
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When Kaiser Permanente in California measured its incidence of pressure ulcers in patients three ...

January 30th, 2012
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Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

January 1st, 2012
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Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

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Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...

October 3rd, 2011
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Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...

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At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...

November 1st, 2010
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Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

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The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon.  The average for Lehi...

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Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...

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For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...

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When Katherine Herrmann, the clinical quality facilitator at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, w...

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Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...

April 5th, 2010
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At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

September 24th, 2009
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The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

September 21st, 2009
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