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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
Since 2012, the Aiming for Zero program at Northwell Hospital is continuously working to reduce C...
The best way to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) is to limit the use ...
The health system did not have an adequate process for notifying staff when a patient was on cont...
A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...
In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...
Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...
The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection is the second most commonly reported hospital-associa...
After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...
The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...
The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...
In 2009, St. James Mercy Hospital implemented a new quality and patient safety initiative, Achiev...
The ProblemUrinary tract infections are the most common infections in hospitals. The majority are...