IHA case studies
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At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...
In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...
Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...
The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...
The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...
Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...
High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...
As a health organization that serves communities disproportionately affected by asthma, Sinai Hea...
Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...
Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...
In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...
The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...
Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...
Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...
Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...
To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...
Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...