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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...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
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...
Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...
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...
Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...
Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...
The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...
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...
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 ...
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...
A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...
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...
Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...
An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...
Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...
Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...
Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...
Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...
The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...
In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...
Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...
Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...
Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...
The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...
At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...
The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...
The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...
The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...
The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...
The Problem Hazleton General Hospital officials were unhappy with their performance on a number ...
The Problem Hazleton General Hospital is committed to providing compassionate, patient-centered,...
Health care acquired infections in U.S. hospitals account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 a...
Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...
The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...