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By 're-engineering'discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chester, Penn., has halved its readmission rate for congestive heart failure patients. 'We think of the discharge process as bundled processes of care beginning with admission,' says Carli Meister, R.N.,…
Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high quality care. Through unique community partnerships, the organization seeks to encourage patients to receive diagnostic and preventive services early on.
Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of Mississippi Medical Center in Jackson participated in Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac Care, a program of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. This initiative aimed to improve quality of cardiac…
Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds
Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized efforts to decrease the occurrence of pressure ulcers. This has been a significant undertaking, considering the institution's population of older adults, debility, spinal cord injury and other…
Experience the calming influence of Coney Island Hospital's "Code Grey" crisis prevention team in psychiatric units.
In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/surgical units and determined that its baseline rate for catheter-associated urinary tract infections was 14.1 per 1,000 catheter days. The national benchmark for medical/surgical units is 4.9. The goal…
Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infection. To address this, Glens Falls Hospital created an interdisciplinary committee to reduce the CAUTI rate. The hospital focused on removing the Foley catheter as soon as clinically possible, and managing…
Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intensive care unit, Ellis Medicine undertook a reduction initiative. The successful strategies are now being applied toward a goal of eliminating health careacquired infections, and to inculcate a hospital-…
Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and prevent hospital-onset C. difficile infections. This successful program involved senior leadership, interdisciplinary teams, use of evidence-based practices, checklists and timely feedback of data.