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HPOE has teamed up with the Illinois Hospital Association to highlight its yearly quality awards. This year, three awards were presented the most effective quality improvement achievements for health care system, rural/critical access hospital and urban hospital.
This project was designed to improve the total health care for patients of a community mental health center and the local Federally Qualified Healthcare Center through the development of an integrated system of care. The target population was comprised of individuals with severe and persistent…
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome and heart failure emphasize a need for rapid turnaround time—within 60 minutes—for troponin results. Prolonged troponin test results may delay recognition of cardiac injury and the initiation…
After learning of the '90 minute' standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac patients, the team was charged with making recommendations to reach the '90 minute' goal. Records from 2006 found that in some instances it took as long as 7.5 hours to get patients from the emergency…
The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients' quality of life. It takes into account the different perspectives of the patient, the patient's family, and the clinician, both currently and over time. The W-QLI website provides five instruments, an assessment…
This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by Rita E. Numerof, Ph.D., president, Numerof & Associates, Inc., St. Louis. Here are the concluding statements: