Virginia Mason, a national leader in improving quality and safety and controlling health care costs, today introduced a surgical warranty for hip and knee replacements. It protects patients, insurance providers and employers from incurring additional costs for the treatment of avoidable, surgery-related complications.
The August edition of The Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Patient Safety features an article about Virginia Mason’s success at using a manufacturing principle of lean to improve medication administration and patient safety.
Virginia Mason announced today it is the first hospital in the United States to earn Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) certification for its commitment to serving seafood grown and harvested by certified, environmentally sustainable methods.
A Virginia Mason study has determined that a nerve block technique which avoids the femoral nerve results in the need for less morphine and a potentially speedier recovery for orthopedic surgery patients.
A new book about Virginia Mason’s journey to transform health care has received the 2014 Shingo Research and Professional Publication Award.
Virginia Mason is again rated as one of the safest hospitals in the U.S by The Leapfrog Group, a national nonprofit organization using the collective leverage of large purchasers of health care to drive improvements in safety, quality and affordability.
SEATTLE – (April 8, 2014) –Virginia Mason was today named a recipient of Healthgrades Outstanding Patient Experience Award for the second consecutive year.
Virginia Mason’s commitment to safety and quality is helping to inspire new measures aimed at improving patient safety at hospitals throughout England.
Virginia Mason announced today it has been named one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals, as measured by Healthgrades, a leading online resource for comprehensive information about physicians and hospitals. With this designation, Virginia Mason ranks among the top 2 percent of U.S. hospitals in 2014. In addition to being the only hospital in Washington to make the top 100 this year, Virginia Mason becomes the first hospital in the state ever to earn the America’s Best Hospitals Award from Healthgrades.
Virginia Mason announced today it has received the Distinguished Hospital Award for Clinical Excellence™ for the fourth consecutive year from Healthgrades.
SEATTLE – (Jan. 20, 2014) – Virginia Mason and Vera Whole Health today announced a strategic collaboration that brings Virginia Mason’s clinical best practices to Vera Whole Health’s employer-funded primary care clinics.
A Virginia Mason study aimed at better understanding what patients mean when they describe their health care experience has identified 35 positive, negative and neutral emotion words that have clear, consistent meanings for patients, families and health care professionals.
Virginia Mason’s quest to transform health care by using principles of lean manufacturing to identify and eliminate waste, improve quality and safety, and lower cost is the focus of a new book called a must-read for health care leaders.
Virginia Mason has been named a 2013 Top Hospital by The Leapfrog Group, making this the eighth consecutive year Virginia Mason has earned this national recognition.
Virginia Mason today becomes the first in the Pacific Northwest to use non-invasive FibroScan technology to evaluate disease stage in patients diagnosed with liver ailments.
Virginia Mason Medical Center announced today it has been recognized by Healthgrades as one of America’s 100 Best Hospitals for cardiac, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, general surgery and critical care.
Virginia Mason has been named one of the 50 Greenest Hospitals in America for 2013 by Becker’s Hospital Review, a leading health care publication.
Carbon monoxide (CO) from external sources can easily penetrate gypsum wallboard (drywall) commonly used in apartments and houses, potentially exposing people indoors to the toxic, odorless, tasteless gas within minutes, concludes a study conducted at Virginia Mason Medical Center.
The Virginia Mason Institute, established in response to the number of requests for Virginia Mason Medical Center to share its success in applying lean principles to improve health care, is commemorating its fifth anniversary this year.
Duodenal anastomosis (a surgical procedure creating a connection with the duodenum, the first section of the small intestine) appears to be a safe and simple method for reconstruction of the bile duct system that can be successfully performed with low rates of leak, narrowing, infection of the bile duct and bile gastritis, according to a study involving several Virginia Mason Medical Center physicians.
Quality, safety, patient experience, value, efficiency and overall health outcomes would improve significantly if the principles of systems engineering were embraced by the American health system.
SEATTLE – (July 10, 2013) – Virginia Mason Medical Center has been named one of the Most Wired health systems in the nation for the second consecutive year by Hospitals & Health Networks magazine. Virginia Mason is again the only Seattle hospital and one of only 289 in the U.S. to make this year’s list.
Virginia Mason was recognized for mercury and waste reduction, recycling and pollution prevention.
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