The Quality Cup winner: Fletcher Allen Health Care's early extubation team.
Many organizations are looking for ways to reduce the cost and improve the quality of open-heart surgery. Fletcher Allen Health Care in Burlington, Vermont used a total quality management approach to do just that. The result was a dramatic improvement in outcomes. Fletcher Allen won the 1994 USA Today Quality Cup for its efforts.
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D001363:Awards and Prizes; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000191:economics* / Q000601:surgery*; D017721:Hospital Costs; D006801:Humans; D007362:Intensive Care Units / Q000592:standards*; D017146:Models, Organizational; D010043:Outcome and Process Assessment, Health Care; D010348:Patient Care Team / Q000592:standards*; D017749:Total Quality Management; D014707:Vermont