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Optimizing Patient Handoffs
For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been developing handoff best practices, making use of both conventional methods (face-to-face sign-outs where in
Decreasing Incidence of Mislabeled Specimens in the Emergency Department by Integrating Daily Safe Practices for Proper Labeling
In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Based Safety Program (CUSP) in its emergency department.
Developing a Medical/Surgical Unit Environmental Readiness Process to Improve Patient Satisfaction and Support Clinical Staff
As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical and surgical units, this initiative had a specific goal of creating an efficient, effective, a
Center of Excellence for Wound Healing and Hyperbaric Medicine
Olean General Hospital is one of only a few community hospitals in the nation to offer a center of excellence in hyperbaric oxygen services and state-of-the-art wound care therapies and treatments.
Excellence in Critical Care: The Intensivist Program in a Community Hospital
Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their critically ill patients. They often bring in specialists as needed.
Decreasing Orthopedic Elective Length of Stay Using Six Sigma
The average length of stay for patients undergoing single elective total joint replacement surgery at Plainview Hospital was excessive at 5.50 days.
A Nursing Strategic Plan Built Upon a Foundation of Patient Safety
In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on the quality of patient outcomes, staff recruitment and retention, and patient safety.
Patient Safety is NOT a Bowl of Cherries!
This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe allergy to cherries noted in one part of her medical record, but not in any other.
Safe Handling of Compressed Oxygen Cylinders
This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St.