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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...
...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...
The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....
A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...
When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...
As part of Blueprint for Health (a statewide, public-private initiative authorized by the Vermont...
Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...
The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...
To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...
SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...
Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...
Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...
Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...
Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...
St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...
A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...
The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...
In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...
United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...
South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...
Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....
Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...
Cox Health System's (Springfield, Mo.) medical leadership created a list of medical indications t...
Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...
The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...
The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...
The hospital recognized an urgent need to improve the current rate of colorectal cancer screening...
Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...
This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...
The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...
Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...
The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care began in 1972. Home-based primary ca...
The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...
Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...
A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...
Children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function and survival rates if their body mass ind...
Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...
AnMed Health is a non-profit health system and the largest employer in Anderson County, South Car...
The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improve...
In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...
The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...
Avista Adventist Hospital, a 114-bed facility in Louisville, Colorado, used best practices and pe...
Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, used best practice...
Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...
Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...
Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...
Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...
Lexington Regional Health Center, a 25-bed facility in Lexington, Nebraska, used best practices a...
Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...
Midstate Medical Center, a 134-bed facility in Meriden, Connecticut, committed to reducing harm a...
NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...
Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...
Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, a 184-bed facility in Elgin, Illinois, examined quality metrics t...
Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...
St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...
St. John's Hospital, a 431-bed facility in Springfield, Illinois, used best practices and peer-to...
UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...
Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 406-bed facility in Yuma, Arizona, used best practices and peer-t...
Truven Health Analytics discusses key areas of focus for hospitals and care systems that want to ...
Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, Ill., created a total knee and hip joint replacement center of excel...
What is it? Now in its third year, Camp Med is a three-day, hands-on experience at the hospital t...
In August 2014, Campbell County Health became the first health care facility in Wyoming to be app...
Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...
Read about how Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare developed a minority nusing program that identifies ...
Read about the many programs that Novant Health has developed around leadership diversity includi...
Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...
Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...
Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...
For nearly 20 years, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey has partnered with the...
The Minority Faculty Development Awards program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cl...
The University of Mississippi Medical Center created a Healthcare Disparities Council with 40 mem...
Greenville Health System in South Carolina overhauled its leadership search and selection process...
Recognizing the need for diversity management, Sparrow Heatlh System in Lansing, Mich., hired a d...
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management's Summer Enrichment Program matches and places m...
Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...
Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...
Northwestern Memorial Hospital, Chicago, worked to create a highly reliable system for follow up ...
Norwegian American Hospital, Chicago, improved both influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates ...
Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...
Albany Medical Center developed the Child Advocacy Resident Education program that aims to improv...
Montefiore Medical Center's School Health Program is the largest and most comprehensive school-ba...
California's Central Valley is known for its abundant fruits and vegetables; however, many famili...
The growing undergraduate public health movement in the nation is exciting; yet, concerns linger ...
The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a partner of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, ...
African immigrants and refugees represent four percent of the total population in the United Stat...
In 2013, the Connecticut Multicultural State Partnership, a non-profit health advocacy group, rec...
Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the nation's health professions workforce has many ...
In a this video, leaders from CHRISTUS Health provide an overview of the Equity of Care initiativ...
The National Center for Health Care Leadership's diversity leadership demonstration project is th...
For six months, Brandywine Hospital has not had one central line-associated bloodstream infection...
OSF Healthcare, Peoria, Ill., wanted to improve the care of patients experiencing an ST elevation...
Presence St. Mary’s Hospital, Kankakee, Ill., improved readmission rates for heart failure patien...
Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...
Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...
Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...
INTEGRIS Health is the largest Oklahoma-owned health care corporation. Its facilities cover the c...