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Monitoring of Mislabeled Specimens by Nursing Staff: A Collaborative Project to Help Ensure Patient Safety

In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and other inpatient nursing units.
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Multidisciplinary Approach to Reducing Preventable Readmissions

Hospital readmissions are costly for both patients and facilities. At the time of discharge, patients are often confused about how to care for themselves at home.
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Transitional Care Management

Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days post-discharge).
Chairperson's File
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Team-based Care Improves Transitions

Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do the same with health care teams.
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Supplier Diversity in Health Care

In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health systems are focusing on supplier diversity.
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Success Preventing Sepsis

Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condition that has a 28% to 50% mortality rate and is quite costly to treat.
Chairperson's File
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Cultural Competence in Health Care

Hospitals and health systems are focusing on cultural competence to create an environment and workforce that delivers the highest quality care to every patient regardless of race, ethnicity, cultur
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Behavioral Health Integration in South Carolina

This case study presents the story of CareSouth Carolina and the Northeastern Rural Health Network, a group of organizations that made the mental health of residents of Chesterfield and Marlboro Co
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Increasing Diversity --The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC)

Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has helped lead the way by significantly increasing their outreach, recruitment and graduation of URM reside
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The Effect of Partnerships -- Charleston Dorchester Mental Health Center

CDMHC's innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departments, increase community tenure for children with mental health conditions, prevent tragedy triggered