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Advance Care Planning: Improving the Conversation
Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of diagnosis or health status.
Community Health Network: A Population Health Model Linking Hospitals and Community Partner Organizations
The Community Health Network (CHN) targets the socioeconomic determinants of health that are not typically addressed in a health care system.
Collaboration for Healthy Schools and Healthy Students
Today, about one out of three children and adolescents ages 2-19 in the United States is overweight.
Improving Compliance with the Core Measure VTE-1 (Venous Thromboembolism) Prophylaxis
This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for every patient more than 18 years old admitted to acute care to ensure that the correct measures were
Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real
The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by almost half.
Standardized Total Knee Replacement Analgesia Protocol Reduces Pain by 20% in Patients in an Academic Medical Center
The goal of this project was to standardize protocols for controlling patient pain following total knee replacement procedures.
Lean Six Sigma Reduces Admission Delays in a Critical Access Hospital Emergency Department by 40%
Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency department (ED)—reducing the number of patients who leave without treatment and improving the
Critical Access Hospital Uses Lean Six Sigma to Improve Anesthesia's Postoperative Note Completion by 95%
The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of all cases using Lean Six Sigma methodologies.
Lean Six Sigma Reduces Implementation Time of Venous Thromboembolism Mechanical Prophylaxis by 78%
Venous thromboembolism (VTE), defined as a deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary emboli, is linked to increased hospital length of stay, increased cost of care, readmissions, disability and death.
Reducing Immunohistochemistry Laboratory Turnaround Time by 20% Using Lean Six Sigma Methodology
Turnaround time for immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains in the laboratory of a 500 bed tertiary care, Level I trauma center was 6.4 hours for morning orders and 19.3 hours for afternoon orders, resul