The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

September 16th, 2016
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This project has decreased cycle time for medication reconciliation at time of admission and for ...

September 16th, 2016
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Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

September 16th, 2016
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Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process...

September 16th, 2016
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The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...

October 6th, 2015
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Patient safety is the number one priority at this facility. After discussing medication errors at...

October 6th, 2015
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An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...

September 14th, 2015
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The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...

June 17th, 2015
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The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...

June 17th, 2015
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After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

March 12th, 2013
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The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

March 12th, 2013
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At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

June 1st, 2012
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