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Advanced Care Planning in the ICU

Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in the ICU.
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Discharge Preparation Team

A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educational material that would equip patients and family members with a better understanding of their il
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Improving Care for our Nation's Veterans--Transradial Catheterization Training Research Program

In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the United States: transradial catheterization.
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ED Case Management Program to Reduce High-frequency Patient Utilization for Hospital and Community

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable ambulance transfers, ED visits and hospitalizations for patients who used the ED more than 10 visit
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Code Stroke Iniatitive

The hospital applied for the Joint Commission certification as a Primary Stroke Center.
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Health Care-Acquired Infections: A Multidisciplinary Approach to Decrease Surgical Site Infections in the Coronary Artery Bypass Graft Patient Population

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the incidence of SSI.
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Perioperative Safety: Improving Perioperative and Anesthesia Assessment to Reduce Day of Surgery Cancellations and Reduce Postoperative Complications

A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative assessment, testing and clearance process of patients.
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Inpatient Respiratory Failure: Prevention Through Appropriate Identification and Management of Obstructive Sleep Apnea

Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in hospitalized patients.
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STEMI (ST-Elevation Myocardial Infarction) Improvement Project

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that create delays in pre-hospitalization to percutaneous coronary intervention times in order to establis
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The Code 42 Quality Improvement Project

Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance rate 4.8 percent below the goal of 97.1 percent.