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Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized efforts to decrease the occurrence of pressure ulcers. This has been a significant undertaking, considering the institution's population of older adults, debility, spinal cord injury and other…
In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hospital for Children held workshops with the staff to review policies and procedures for fire safety and evacuation. The staff received hands-on opportunities to respond to firerelated case…
Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in the inpatient, outpatient, emergency and surgical settings. The fine line between therapeutic and toxic pediatric doses presents potential risk. The hospital uses an evidence-based protocol based on…
The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality of health care services provided to patients by implementing patient-centered medical home principles.
In 2009, North Central Bronx Hospital analyzed data from its diabetes registry to identify opportunities for improving glycemic control. Of the 2,000 patients, only 22 percent had achieved glycemic control of glycated hemoglobin (A1c) of less than 7 percent. The hospital also found 25 percent had…
As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assessment of current processes, she identified the following problems in the medication sampling program: compliance with current processes was poor; there was no consistency in accepting samples;…
Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural health care organizations must maintain financial viability and regulatory compliance; it is imperative that they not only identify and meet the needs of the communities they serve, but evaluate…
North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data in a systematic and organized fashion to devise a consistent and safe way to administer the high alert medication, oxytocin; to reduce the incidence of shoulder dystocia, Erb's palsy and severe…
An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the maternal child nurses at Good Samaritan Hospital Medical Center to examine their infant safety strategies. These events represented a call to action related to co-sleeping, and a task force was…