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

October 6th, 2015
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Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...

September 1st, 2015

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

June 10th, 2015
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Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

June 1st, 2015
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United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

April 21st, 2015
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South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...

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Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

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Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

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The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

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Norwegian American Hospital, Chicago, improved both influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates ...

November 17th, 2014
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Care for people with multiple chronic health conditions is often fragmented, resulting in increas...

July 11th, 2014
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Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...

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During 2011, the hospital joined the IHA Project Re-Engineering Discharge (RED) collaborative to ...

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St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

August 30th, 2013
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In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...

May 13th, 2013
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According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...

March 26th, 2013
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The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

March 12th, 2013
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A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

March 6th, 2013
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Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

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Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...

January 1st, 2013
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Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

January 1st, 2013
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Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

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Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

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Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...

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Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

January 1st, 2013

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

January 1st, 2013
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Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

January 1st, 2013
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The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

November 9th, 2012
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Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

July 19th, 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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A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

June 1st, 2012
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In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

February 1st, 2012
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Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...

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Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

February 1st, 2012
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Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...

February 1st, 2012
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A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...

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Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

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Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

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Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...

February 1st, 2012
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To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

February 1st, 2012
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In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...

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With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...

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Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...

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A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...

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Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

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Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

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As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...

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Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...

February 1st, 2012
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Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

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Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

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Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

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An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...

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Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

February 1st, 2012
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Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

February 1st, 2012
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The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

February 1st, 2012
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Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

February 1st, 2012
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Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

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Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

February 1st, 2012
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Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

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The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

February 1st, 2012
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In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

February 1st, 2012
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Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...

February 1st, 2012
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Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

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Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...

January 1st, 2012
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Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

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The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...

September 24th, 2009
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At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

September 24th, 2009
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The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

September 21st, 2009
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The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...

September 20th, 2009
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The Problem A new 192-room patient bed tower was constructed and designed with a new decentraliz...

September 20th, 2009
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The Problem In a 2008 medical staff satisfaction survey, 93 percent of Advocate Good Shepherd ph...

September 1st, 2009
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The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...

August 5th, 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 ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

August 1st, 2009
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The Problem In 2004, Faxton Hospital and St. Luke's-Memorial Hospital merged. The leaders of the...

August 1st, 2009
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