Did You Know?

For the fifth year in a row, Rush ranked in the top 10 in the University HealthSystem Consortium's Quality and Accountability Study that measures patient safety, effectiveness, equity of care, efficiency and patient centeredness in academic medical centers across the country.

According to the U.S. Department of Labor, quality control inspectors may check the quality of products by sight, sound, feel, smell or even taste.

Rush University College of Nursing offers a generalist entry master's program in nursing that focuses on clinical leadership and trains future nurses to improve the quality of patient care.

Americans report feeling "healthy and full of energy" about 19 days per month and unhealthy about six days per month, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention health-related quality-of-life survey findings.

The Married Couples Sleep Study, a study at the Sleep Disorders Center at Rush, concluded that a husband's sleep apnea negatively affects his wife's quality of sleep and the couple's marital satisfaction.

A diamond's quality is based on four criteria: cut, color, carat weight and clarity.