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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...
After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...
South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...
Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...
Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...
The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...
Norwegian American Hospital, Chicago, improved both influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates ...
Care for people with multiple chronic health conditions is often fragmented, resulting in increas...
Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...
During 2011, the hospital joined the IHA Project Re-Engineering Discharge (RED) collaborative to ...
St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...
In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...
According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...
The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...
A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...
Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...
Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...
Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...
Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...
Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...
Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...
The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...
Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...
A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...
In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...
Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...
Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...
Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...
A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...
Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...
Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...
To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...
In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...
With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...
Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...
A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...
Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...
Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...
Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...