This week, June 4-10, 2017, the AHA's Association for Community Health Improvement is celebrating...

June 5th, 2017
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At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...

September 16th, 2016
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Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...

September 16th, 2016
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After reducing health care-acquired deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE) in 2011,...

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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The project focused on managing sepsis in the emergency department and in admitted patients, with...

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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A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

February 29th, 2016
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Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

February 29th, 2016
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Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

February 29th, 2016
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The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

December 17th, 2015
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The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

November 23rd, 2015
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Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

September 14th, 2015
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The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identi...

September 14th, 2015
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The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website highlights quality improvement stories at hundreds...

September 14th, 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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Two health care systems and more than 20 community organizations are improving the health and wel...

July 6th, 2015
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This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

July 1st, 2015
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Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Outcomes Improvements, 30-Day Readmissions and Morta...

June 18th, 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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After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

June 10th, 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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St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...

May 28th, 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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The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

March 22nd, 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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There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

April 16th, 2014
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The health care field leaves a large environmental footprint, but hospitals and health care syste...

April 7th, 2014
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Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...

December 9th, 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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This article discusses opportunities for health care providers to leverage Affordable Care Act re...

November 5th, 2013
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Eliminating hospital-acquired infections, preventing patient falls, reducing preventable readmiss...

November 4th, 2013
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Eliminating hospital-acquired infections, preventing patient falls, reducing preventable readmiss...

November 4th, 2013
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As health care leaders implement diverse improvement projects, from reducing hospital-acquired in...

October 25th, 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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Newark Department of Child and Family Well-BeingNewark NJ The Problem In 2003, The Newark (N.J.)...

August 19th, 2013

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

August 5th, 2013
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No single organization can effectively address complex community health issues such as access to ...

June 4th, 2013
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Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...

April 15th, 2013
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Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agend...

March 13th, 2013
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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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The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

November 27th, 2012
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Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

October 22nd, 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 IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

September 26th, 2012
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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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As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...

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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The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

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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Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

June 1st, 2012
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The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

April 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 paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

November 1st, 2011
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The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

August 1st, 2011
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This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...

January 1st, 2011
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At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago this fall, Kathi Patterson,...

December 20th, 2010
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This guide communicates the idea that workforce and human resource practices can positively impac...

June 1st, 2010
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Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...

October 1st, 2009
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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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Regional Health Improvement Collaborative provides a neutral, trusted mechanism through which all...

January 1st, 2009
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