HANYS case studies
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Schuyler Hospital’s Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Schuyler initiative offers various opport...
Stony Brook University Hospital coordinated efforts with its emergency department and ambulatory ...
Serious dental problems can affect the overall well-being of an individual. Therefore, Mount St. ...
Like many hospitals, SBH Health System uses the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. ...
SBH Health System implemented numerous strategies to reduce the number of Cather-Associated Urina...
MedEx Bedside Prescription Delivery is the very first bedside medication delivery service for hos...
Since 2012, the Aiming for Zero program at Northwell Hospital is continuously working to reduce C...
The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...
Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...
Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...
The NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System implemented multidisciplinary ICU mobilization teams t...
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...
When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...
United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...
Care for people with multiple chronic health conditions is often fragmented, resulting in increas...
Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...
The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...
Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...
The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...
Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...
Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...
Olean General Hospital is one of only a few community hospitals in the nation to offer a center o...
A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...
The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...
Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...
At Mountainside Residential Care Center's resident council, residents requested an improved dinin...
In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...
Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...
With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...
Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...
Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...
The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...
Medication, in addition to other treatment options, is an integral part of the care provided to l...
The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...
This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...
The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...
Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...
Until recently, Stony Brook University Medical Center's approach to core measure data consisted o...
North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...
St. Mary's Healthcare has an obligation to protect patients from harm and preventing adverse effe...
A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...
In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...
This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. Francis Hospita...
Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...
Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...
Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...
Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...
In 2010, Southampton Hospital discovered that its process for checking and maintaining equipment/...