According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...

March 26th, 2013
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The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

March 26th, 2013
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The goal was to eliminate all variances in the clinical process measures to ensure that patients ...

March 26th, 2013
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According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...

March 26th, 2013
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Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

March 25th, 2013
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Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

March 25th, 2013
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In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...

March 22nd, 2013
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In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care commi...

March 13th, 2013
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The hospital developed a comprehensive, multidisciplinary stroke program to provide patients with...

March 13th, 2013
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After several monthly reviews of reported adverse drug events, hypoglycemia ranked highest for th...

March 12th, 2013
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The driving principle behind the outpatient service excellence journey is excellent customer serv...

March 12th, 2013
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A nurse-driven protocol was implemented to increase the staff’s awareness on the appropriate indi...

March 12th, 2013
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After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...

March 12th, 2013
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Central line-associated bloodstream infections continued to occur in the adult ICU despite the im...

March 12th, 2013
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To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...

March 12th, 2013
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After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

March 12th, 2013
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Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

March 12th, 2013
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The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

March 12th, 2013
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The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...

March 6th, 2013
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