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Quality and safety are “top of the agenda” at urban and rural hospitals across the country. At Ho...
Using HOUDINI to eliminate CAUTI. It’s all about decreasing the inappropriate use of indwelling c...
State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...
Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...
Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...
Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...
White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital Center’s interdisciplinary team developed a disinfection procedure ...
In 2009, a multi-pronged approach involving all stakeholders was launched aimed at early identifi...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...
The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...
This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...
For six months, Brandywine Hospital has not had one central line-associated bloodstream infection...
Nearly 1,500 U.S. hospitals are working to eliminate patient harm and reduce hospital readmission...
Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...
Goal-Save lives, reduce suffering and lower costs related to complications of surgery. Developed...
The Florida Hospital Association highlights its quality improvement initiatives with several repo...
This report highlights five years of quality improvement among Florida hospitals. It highlights "...
On the Cusp Initiative GoalReduce the occurrence of two frequent hospital-acquired infections—ur...
It is both a sprint and a marathon.” That's how a team at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor,...
Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the flagship publication of the AHA, has put together a web...
This webinar highlights the upcoming HPOE action guide, "Eliminating Catheter-Associated Urinary ...
There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...
A nurse-driven protocol was implemented to increase the staff’s awareness on the appropriate indi...
After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...
The hospital joined the On the CUSP: Stop BSI collaborative offered by IHA. The focus was on CLA...
Central line-associated bloodstream infections continued to occur in the adult ICU despite the im...
In October 2010, Memorial Medical Center implemented an intervention “bundle” designed to reduce ...
A hospital study was conducted to evaluate the practicality and effectiveness of UV light as a ge...
Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, ...
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...
The purpose of the project was to improve the recognition and early goal directed treatment of pa...
The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...
The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...
The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...
Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...
The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...
Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...
On the CUSP: Stop BSI and Stop CAUTI aim to eliminate central line associated bloodstream infecti...
The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...
This online education program has been developed by infection control experts from Joint Commissi...
The Quality Transformation Network is a large and growing group of children's hospitals combining...
This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...
The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...
A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...
This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...