Rush-Copley Medical Center collaborated with the Kane County Health Department after an outbreak ...

June 1st, 2012
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Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

June 1st, 2012
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Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

June 1st, 2012
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A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

June 1st, 2012
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Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

June 1st, 2012
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Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

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A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

June 1st, 2012
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This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

June 1st, 2012
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At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

June 1st, 2012
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Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

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A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...

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Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

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A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

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Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...

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The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

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Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

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Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

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Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

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The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

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Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

June 1st, 2012
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