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Teamwork between infection control and environmental services professionals at Hunterdon Medical ...
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...
Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...
It is both a sprint and a marathon.” That's how a team at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor,...
Only a small percentage of patients develop a health care-associated infection after surgery, and...
This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...
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 ...
Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...
More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...
There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...
Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...
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...
Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...
