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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Goal-Save lives, reduce suffering and lower costs related to complications of surgery. Developed...
Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network GoalsReduce patient harm by 40 percent and ...
Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...
Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...
Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...
The hospital joined the On the CUSP: Stop BSI collaborative offered by IHA. The focus was on CLA...
In October 2010, Memorial Medical Center implemented an intervention “bundle” designed to reduce ...
The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...
Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, ...
To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...
After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...
Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...
The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...
The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...
The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...
In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...
Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...
An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...
The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...
Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...
