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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...
White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital Center’s interdisciplinary team developed a disinfection procedure ...
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...
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...
On the Cusp Initiative GoalReduce the occurrence of two frequent hospital-acquired infections—ur...
This report highlights five years of quality improvement among Florida hospitals. It highlights "...
There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...
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...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
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 ...
On the CUSP: Stop BSI and Stop CAUTI aim to eliminate central line associated bloodstream infecti...
This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...
The Quality Transformation Network is a large and growing group of children's hospitals combining...
This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...
Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...
This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...
A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...
In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...
In 2009, St. James Mercy Hospital implemented a new quality and patient safety initiative, Achiev...
The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...
In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...
Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...
Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...
Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...
In 2005, Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center's leadership directed implementation of ...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...
Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...
NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...
John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online...
The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...
The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...
The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...
