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The Firefighters’ Burn and Surgical Laboratory at MedStar Washington Hospital Center is helping to test the effectiveness of an investigational device called ReCell.

The MedStar Health Cancer Network has pledged to support the “80% by 2018” initiative – a nationwide goal to increase colorectal cancer screening rates to 80% in the next two years.

The study was published in The Worldviews on Evidence-Based Nursing and addresses the opportunities to implement evidence based nursing practices (EBP) across diverse hospital systems

MedStar Health is in the vanguard of health systems across the country that are embracing transparency and adopting practices to immediately communicate with patients and families—and other members of the care team—when something goes wrong. MedStar has been following the principles of communication and disclosure for several years, and was asked to develop and pilot the toolkit for the Communication and Optimal Resolution (CANDOR) program of the federal Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality (AHRQ). AHRQ made the toolkit available today to hospitals and health leaders at no charge to encourage transparency everywhere.

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MedStar Health investigators have been awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) grant to study the feasibility of having nurses integrate the “Diabetes to Go Inpatient” education program into the workflow of hospital nursing units to improve self-care and outcomes.