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Hypoglycemia Resolution Improvement with Lean Six Sigma Techniques and Nursing Team Collaboration
Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures, coma, and contributes to increased mortality and length of stay.
Implementation of a Robust Process to Gather an Accurate Home Medication List for Admitted Patients
An accurate home medication list serves as the 'source of truth' for the entire process of medication reconciliation.
Implementation of Diagnosis-specific Discharge Instructions to Reduce Global Office Visits
The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma methodologies. Process defects were identified in patient education discharge instructions.
Implementing a Comprehensive Fall Prevention Program
Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care throughout the organization.
Implementing a Patient Blood Management Program
Blood transfusions to treat anemia can have a significant impact on patient outcomes.
Implementing Change to Reduce Readmissions: A Team Approach
The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interventions to all applicable patients. This resulted in varied patient outcomes.
Improvement in Early Identification and Diagnosis of C.diff
The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identification and treatment of patients during acute inpatient hospitalization.
Improving Ambulatory Care Safety: Elimination of Injection Errors at Primary Care Physician Offices
The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's primary care clinics.
Increasing Person Engagement
Erie County Medical Center's 'boots on the floor' initiative began by hiring five full-time patient advocates to provide concierge services for patients within the hospital.
Mobile after ICU
The NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System implemented multidisciplinary ICU mobilization teams to get critically ill patients in the intensive car