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March 8, 2022
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Hanover Hospital (KS) Uses Patient and Family Engagement to Help Patients Find Community Resources
Hanover Hospital (KS) Uses Patient and Family Engagement to Help Patients Find Community Resources While finishing her master’s degree in social work, Cassie Pralle, T-LMSW, learned about the importance of looking at and evaluating which resources are thriving in communities and which were lacking. When she became the social services director at Hanover Hospital in […]
March 8, 2022
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Coffee Regional Medical Center
Coffee Regional Medical Center, a 98-bed hospital located in Douglas, GA provides high-quality, patient-centered care and has been named a Top Small Hospital in Georgia. As an acute care facility in a rural community with limited resources and an inefficient discharge process as well as inadequate coordination with clinicians and providers, Coffee Regional Medical Center […]
March 8, 2022
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Washington Hospital Reduces SSI Rate
Washington Hospital Reduces SSI Rate Between 2012 to 2015, Newport Hospital and Health Services, a 24-bed rural critical access hospital in Newport, Wash., discovered its surgical site infection (SSI) rates had increased from 1.6% to 2.4%. Although the total number of infections over the four years was only 12, the hospital conducted in-depth analyses and structured […]