Small (under 100 beds)
How do you measure success in creating a culture of health? Mountain View Hospital, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Madras, Ore., can count the 1,660 pounds that participants collectively lost in Movin? Mountains Health Challenge 2010. MVH serves a diverse, rural and somewhat economically…
The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia, doing so within the confines of a spinal cord injury population presents unique challenges. In April of 2008, we had several patients, some of whom had spinal cord injuries and were on ventilators,…
The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission statement to improve the emergency department process. The goals were to improve patient satisfaction to greater than 88 percent, decrease length of stay to less than 120 minutes, reduce left without…