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RWJF Awards Seven Communities for Population Health Work
Sep 16, 2016 ||Two of the winning communities are home to essential hospitals: KentuckyOne Health in Louisville, Ky., and Jackson Health System in Miami-Dade County, Fla.
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Easily Engage Leadership to Create Accountability and Decrease Hospital-Acquired Infections
May 28, 2014 ||To gain control of an HAC that had plagued Jackson Health System for nearly two decades, the hospital began sending weekly emails to hospital leaders regarding the state of the HAC and attempted interventions. As aresult, the number of patients acquiring the HAC drastically dropped.
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Behavioral Health Care: Filling an Unmet LGBT Need
Nov 25, 2013 ||Through expert care and specialized services, Jackson Behavioral Health Hospital is reducing care disparities
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When a massive earthquake struck Haiti in 2010, 40 percent of our members offered their support
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Grants go to 105 organizations that will serve as navigators in states with federally facilitated exchanges
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CLABSI: New Uses for Chlorhexidine Gluconate
Jul 16, 2013 ||Silvia Munoz-Price, MD, an epidemiologist at Jackson Memorial Hospital, discussed how using applications of chlorhexidine gluconate (CHG) has affected CLABSI rates in her institution. Jamie St. Clair RN, MS, and Brenda Vermillion, RN, with The Ohio State University (OSU) Wexner Medical Center reviewed how certain blood culture techniques and environmental decontamination, along with CHG bathing,
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