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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
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...
T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...
The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...
This case study presents the story of CareSouth Carolina and the Northeastern Rural Health Networ...
Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has help...
CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...
Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...
The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...
Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...
This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...
Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...
Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...
The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...
Patient safety is the number one priority at this facility. After discussing medication errors at...
Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...
In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...
Hospital readmissions are costly for both patients and facilities. At the time of discharge, pati...
Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...
The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...
The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...
Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...
An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...
The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...
Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care thr...
Blood transfusions to treat anemia can have a significant impact on patient outcomes. It was reco...