Overcoming language barriers with patients improves communication, a critical element of safety a...

November 9th, 2015
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Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

September 15th, 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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North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...

September 14th, 2015

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

July 27th, 2015
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Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...

June 16th, 2015
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Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

June 16th, 2015
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The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...

June 16th, 2015
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The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

June 16th, 2015
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Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...

June 16th, 2015
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The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

June 9th, 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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The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

May 27th, 2015
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South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...

April 21st, 2015
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The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...

April 3rd, 2015
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April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...

March 30th, 2015
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Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...

February 5th, 2015
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Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

February 5th, 2015
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