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Quality Improvement Report, September 1, 2008
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Heightened awareness, new beds that provide pressure relief, and skin assessments on every patient entering the facility helped Baystate Medical Center in Springfield, MA, reduce its pressure ulcer rate from 20% to 0.8%.
The push to improve the rate for bedsores started in the mid-1990s, when one of the directors came to the hospital and said, “We can do better than this,” says Jan Fitzgerald, MS, RN, director of quality and medical management at Baystate.
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