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Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds
In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose seven pilots site with established palliative care programs to test improvements. The goal of the initiative was to spread leading strategies across the continuum of care throughout the system. An…
The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a multi-faceted approach that depends on the re-design of the health care system in 4 domains.
Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In turn, the population served by University Hospitals, Cleveland, has become more ethnically diverse. To better serve current patients and welcome new patients, UH's board charged hospital leadership…
The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon. The average for Lehigh Valley Health Network was 150 minutes with variation of monthly averages. Meanwhile the average for beginning thrombolytics therapy was much higher than the standard of 30 minutes. In stages over…
Reducing preventable harm by half is a lofty goal for any hospital, let alone a large, integrated system. But leaders at Henry Ford Health System in Detroit say their ambitious No Harm campaign has transformed the system's culture from the board room to the front lines. In 2007, Henry Ford…
An AHA research synthesis report presents an overview of bundled payment, including evidence of its impact in the public and private sector. Before bundled payments are implemented, these key considerations must be addressed:
When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Shepherd Hospital, Barrington, Ill., encountered challenges while working to streamline lab workflow and redesign the lab's physical layout. The hospital began the project after surveys showed medical…
At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff actively tracked patients with manual entry of a patient's location into a computer system. Keeping track of such a high number of patients in real time was clearly a challenge given the ongoing…