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

September 16th, 2016
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High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

September 16th, 2016
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A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is ac...

August 1st, 2016
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Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

November 23rd, 2015
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What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Que...

August 24th, 2015
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This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

July 6th, 2015
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Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center established the Quality Excellence Council at the beg...

June 23rd, 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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Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

June 17th, 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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The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...

November 24th, 2014
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The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...

October 30th, 2014
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Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...

September 15th, 2014
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This guide is a synopsis of a conversation held at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Mate...

December 17th, 2013
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Each year, the AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals and health systems that have...

November 19th, 2013
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Each year, the AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals and health systems that have...

October 17th, 2013
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This report highlights five years of quality improvement among Florida hospitals. It highlights "...

September 16th, 2013
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In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...

August 5th, 2013
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The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality prize honors hospitals that have a committed in a systemic man...

July 29th, 2013
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Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

April 29th, 2013
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Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...

February 7th, 2013
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The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

November 27th, 2012
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"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

November 5th, 2012
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Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...

October 25th, 2012
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This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

October 8th, 2012
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Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

October 1st, 2012
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Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

October 1st, 2012
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The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

August 1st, 2012
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University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...

July 19th, 2012
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This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

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 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.  The award...

March 12th, 2012
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An interactive map showing quality initiatives by state

March 1st, 2012
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In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

March 1st, 2012
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Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

February 1st, 2012
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This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

January 1st, 2012
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The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

October 26th, 2011
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The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

October 1st, 2011
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This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

April 1st, 2011
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Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...

August 16th, 2010
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