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With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often challenged to remain viable: developing and growing new services is not generally a goal of inpatient units in countering this threat. Claxton-Hepburn Medical Center successfully matched a need--available…
Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of radiology test orders by patient care unit staff into the computerized hospital information system. The primary objective is to assure patient safety by promoting accuracy, accountability, and…
Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor outcomes and readmissions to the hospital within 30 days. In addition, errors in discharge prescriptions are common and difficult to resolve or identify at a remote community pharmacy, and may…
Stern Family Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation tracked hospital readmissions and found that more than 25 percent of the readmissions were for heart failure. These findings were presented and discussed at its monthly Performance Improvement Coordinating Group meeting. A task force was…
The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control health care system costs by improving the patient's post-discharge medication management.
Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are clinically undesirable, changes in reimbursement methodologies are making them financially undesirable, and low readmission rates may serve as a measure of quality. After reviewing successful programs in…
A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of the readmission crisis in health care. In anticipation of potential readmission penalties, the organization developed a multidisciplinary improvement initiative to reduce avoidable readmissions and…
Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to track ulcer status. Adhering to the philosophy of transparency and promotion of patient well-being, the nursing staff at Coney Island Hospital incorporated information technology and digital imaging…
At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four out of the nine measures in the Surgical Care Improvement Project (SCIP) measure set had met the established goals for at least five quarters. Administration of prophylactic antibiotic within one hour…
The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to emergent patient care situations within the non-critical care areas of the hospital. This performance improvement initiative also helped to satisfy The Joint Commission's related National Patient…