Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...

For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...

Mercy Medical Center committed to delivering the highest quality care with the greatest efficienc...

As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...

Telemedicine, successfully used in many areas of medicine, has yet to be evaluated during the reh...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

As part of an effort to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognized ...

Many patients who find themselves in a situation where they are experiencing worsening symptoms o...

Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

For the past 30 years, the Healthcare for the Homeless Program has addressed the health needs of ...

The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...

At Boston Medical Center, a multidisciplinary team developed a strategy to reduce pulmonary compl...

The Hospital Group focused on reducing the readmission rate on the rehabilitation service unit (R...

MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...

Approximately 28 percent of the hospital's patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) are readm...

Every day, hospitals are successfully meeting challenges and providing quality care in their comm...

Focusing on value-based payment structures has helped Mount Auburn Hospital design care delivery ...

Hospitals and health care systems are striving to achieve the Triple Aim—improving the patient ex...

To address disparities in health care outcomes, Main Line Health is proactively addressing socioe...

The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

Overcoming language barriers with patients improves communication, a critical element of safety a...

Cultural competency is critical to reducing health care disparities and improving access to high-...

This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...

In July of 2009, Olean General Hospital embarked on a journey to improve outcomes for cardiac pat...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...

Virtual Health Village is a health information exchange for sharing secure, up-to-date student he...

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...

Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...

The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...

Medical center evidence pointed to a delay in surgery beyond 48 hours for hip fracture patients a...

The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

A performance improvement project was initiated to reduce the number of elective inductions and c...

The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...