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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Reducing inpatient length of stay has a strong impact on value and organizational performance, an...
Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are a major cause of morbidity and morta...
As a health organization that serves communities disproportionately affected by asthma, Sinai Hea...
The utilization review staff at HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital examines medical records for inpati...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's quality award submissions are highlighted on HPOE....
Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...
A local urology department partnered with the performance improvement department to identify oppo...
According to published research data, the majority of cardiac stent patients have no additional r...
The clinic throughput time was viewed as excessive and lacked standardized best practices. A new ...
This project involves raising awareness and expanding the palliative care program at HSHS St. Joh...
Undergoing surgery of any kind can be a stressful experience for patients and their families. The...
Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...
By using evidence-based medicine and hardwiring concurrent review, HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Hig...
Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...
The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...
Surgery case cancellation rates OSF Center for Health were 10.5 percent over six months. This cre...
Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended ...
Senior leadership at Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System assembled an improvement team to use...
The blood bank relocated to a new hospital facility while the labor and delivery (L&D) unit remai...
This academic medical center developed and implemented a program to improve outcomes and reduce r...
Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process...
The University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital recently develope...
Carthage Area Hospital is improving patient and employee experiences by providing them with fresh...
The Lung Partners Primary Respiratory Care at the Crouse Hospital is managing the needs of patien...
Demand for Brockton Neighborhood Health Center (BNHC) accelerated after it started in 1994 as a m...
The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Base...
Codman Square Health Center in downtown Dorchester, MA exemplifies how a health center can build ...
North Country HealthCare is a federally qualified health center serving fourteen communities in n...
Claremont Village is a New York City Housing Authority (NYCHA) public housing development in the ...
As one of only two hospitals in Yuma County, Yuma District Hospital and Clinic (YDHC) can ascerta...
Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...
In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...
An integrated health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avera Health serves patie...
Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...
Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gundersen Health System is an integrated tertiary referral center ...
Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana, is working with community stakeholders, inc...
Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...
Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 79 bed, community hospital serving the residents of eas...
Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP) is a nonprofit comprehensive health care system based in Los...
Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...
Meritus Health’s replacement hospital, Meritus Medical Center, opened five years ago in Washingto...
Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...
Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...
The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier ...
The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...
The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to trans...
Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...
Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...
Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...
A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...
As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...
Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...
Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...
In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...
The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...
For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...
The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...
North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...
The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...
Mercy Medical Center committed to delivering the highest quality care with the greatest efficienc...
Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...
At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...
Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...
The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...
North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...
As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...
TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...
Telemedicine, successfully used in many areas of medicine, has yet to be evaluated during the reh...
Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...
As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...
Through this initiative, Highland Healthcare Associates IPA seeks to improve the physician's expe...
Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...
New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...
As part of an effort to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognized ...
Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...
The Care Tracker program at Signature Healthcare collates data from multiple sources, including b...
Many patients who find themselves in a situation where they are experiencing worsening symptoms o...
Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...
Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...
Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...
The School Based Care Coordination Program supports at-risk youth and families in two school dist...
For the past 30 years, the Healthcare for the Homeless Program has addressed the health needs of ...
Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...
The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...
CDC data shows that over 70 percent of patients with pre-diabetes will develop type 2 diabetes du...
To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...
The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...
At Boston Medical Center, a multidisciplinary team developed a strategy to reduce pulmonary compl...
In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...
The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...
Hallmark Health System, Inc., is participating in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (C...
The Hospital Group focused on reducing the readmission rate on the rehabilitation service unit (R...
With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...
At Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, the pediatric intensive care unit has been implem...
Dedicated to eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections, North Shore Medical Center...
MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...
Approximately 28 percent of the hospital's patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) are readm...
Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...
This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...