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The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...
This project addresses the health care system's strategic initiative to ensure interdisciplinary ...
According to published research data, the majority of cardiac stent patients have no additional r...
The clinic throughput time was viewed as excessive and lacked standardized best practices. A new ...
Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...
Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has help...
Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...
Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...
Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...
The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...
The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...
Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...
Presence St. Joseph's Medical Center's project implemented interventions to maintain patient func...
In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...
The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....
Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...
The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...
Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the nation's health professions workforce has many ...
Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...
St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...
Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...
Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...
Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...
Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...
In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...
In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...
San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...
Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...
University HospitalsCleveland, OH1,032 Beds The Problem To address the changing demographics of ...
The Problem ThedaCare selected its radiation oncology (rad-onc) department to kick off a systemw...
Four "value health opportunities" have been developed for three major Minneapolis employer group...
