At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...

September 16th, 2016
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Because the medical center’s lost charge capture related to IV injection and infusions totaled $8...

September 16th, 2016
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A local urology department partnered with the performance improvement department to identify oppo...

September 16th, 2016
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Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended ...

September 16th, 2016
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Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

June 17th, 2015
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Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

June 17th, 2015
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The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...

June 8th, 2015
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SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...

June 1st, 2015
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Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

March 31st, 2015
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This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...

March 12th, 2015
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After several monthly reviews of reported adverse drug events, hypoglycemia ranked highest for th...

March 12th, 2013
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Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

June 1st, 2012
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After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

June 1st, 2012
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A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

June 1st, 2012
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This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

June 1st, 2012
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Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

June 1st, 2012
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The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

June 1st, 2012
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At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...

February 1st, 2012
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The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...

July 1st, 2009
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