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Georgia Medical Care Foundation initiated the Bells for Remembrance program, a faith-based initiative designed to raise mammogram rates. GMCF sent “women’s health planners” to organizations that participated in the program and to all new female Medicare beneficiaries. The planner is full of reminders for a breast self-exam, and stickers to mark a doctor’s appointment, friend or family birthdays, and an annual reminder for a flu shot. Randomly selected female Medicare beneficiaries received a business reply card with questions about their understanding of Medicare breast health benefits, and whether they intend to use the reminder stickers. The response rate has been excellent – 3.6%. Gwinnett Hospital System in Lawrenceville performs 402 hysterectomies without a single surgical infection: While participating in a 2002 QIO-sponsored project to reduce surgical site infections, Gwinnett achieved 100% on-time administration of prophylactic antibiotics, 100% of patients with normal body temperature during surgery, and 100% with proper oxygenation during surgery. In 2002, Gwinnett performed 54 colon operations without a surgical infection in a five-month period, and 41 knee/hip arthroplasty cases without a single surgical infection. “It is our goal to spread to all surgical procedures within one year of the completion of this project,” said Gwen Hudson, Surgical Systems Project Operations Manager, Gwinnett Hospital System.

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