In 2015, the geriatric and palliative care team at South Nassau Communities Hospital sponsored a ...

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Stony Brook University Hospital coordinated efforts with its emergency department and ambulatory ...

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In response to a rapidly transforming health care environment, hospitals and health systems acros...

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BackgroundHenry Ford Health System is a not-for-profit corporation composed of hospitals, medical...

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BackgroundIllinois Valley Community Hospital is a 49-bed, not-for-profit hospital located in Peru...

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BackgroundMedStar Health is a not-for-profit health system in the Maryland and Washington, D.C., ...

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BackgroundMultiCare Health System is a not-for-profit health care organization based in Tacoma, W...

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BackgroundOchsner Health System in southeast Louisiana manages 13 hospitals and more than 40 heal...

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After recognizing asthma as a major condition for many patients in the emergency department, St. ...

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Hospitals are working to achieve all elements of the Triple Aim by redesigning traditional ways o...

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At hospitals and health care systems across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are lea...

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Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

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The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

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The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

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Concurrent review of three core measure sets has ensured appropriate and timely patient care. The...

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The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...

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Reducing inpatient length of stay has a strong impact on value and organizational performance, an...

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Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...

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Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...

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In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

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Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

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Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

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The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

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The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to trans...

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Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

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Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

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

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As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

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Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

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In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

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The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

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The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

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North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

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The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

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Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

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

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The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...

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North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

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TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

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Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

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Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

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As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...

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New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...

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Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...

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The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...

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In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...

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The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...

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This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

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In 2015, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded HRET to strengthen care transitions by crea...

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TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...

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The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

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North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...

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NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...

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

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The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

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Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

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This project was designed to improve the total health care for patients of a community mental hea...

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This toolkit has tips on  Selecting Patients and Families to Serve as Advisors Preparation fo...

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The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

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At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...

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Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

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This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

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Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls a...

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The answer is HPOE.org. The question: Where do hospital and care system leaders find resources an...

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Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

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This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...

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This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

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Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...

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Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...

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The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...

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The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

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The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

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Disparities in care were noted for diabetes, cardio vascular disease and cancer screeening for Hm...

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Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

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African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

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