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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
Quality and safety are “top of the agenda” at urban and rural hospitals across the country. At Ho...
Using HOUDINI to eliminate CAUTI. It’s all about decreasing the inappropriate use of indwelling c...
State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...
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...
Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...
Nearly 1,500 U.S. hospitals are working to eliminate patient harm and reduce hospital readmission...
Teamwork between infection control and environmental services professionals at Hunterdon Medical ...
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...
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...
Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...
Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
Small but mighty describes Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hosp...
Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...
Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...
The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...
One measure in one area in one month: 1-1-1. That's the call-to-action plan employed by Parrish M...
While many health care-acquired infections are transmitted by personal contact due to poor hand h...
Making cleanliness everyone's responsibility was part of an infection control and patient safety ...
Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...
Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...
Texas Health Resources, a 14-hospital system based in Arlington, wanted to not only reduce ventil...
When the Infection Prevention and Control Department of Medical Center of McKinney in McKinney, T...
The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...
