Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare, a division of Wheaton Franciscan Services, Inc., is a Catholic, no...

Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...

The need for cultural competence among physician providers is widely recognized by accrediting bo...

As the United States becomes increasingly diverse and as individuals choose to be more acculturat...

After several monthly reviews of reported adverse drug events, hypoglycemia ranked highest for th...

The driving principle behind the outpatient service excellence journey is excellent customer serv...

A nurse-driven protocol was implemented to increase the staff’s awareness on the appropriate indi...

After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...

The hospital joined the On the CUSP: Stop BSI  collaborative offered by IHA. The focus was on CLA...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections continued to occur in the adult ICU despite the im...

In October 2010, Memorial Medical Center implemented an intervention “bundle” designed to reduce ...

A hospital study was conducted to evaluate the practicality and effectiveness of UV light as a ge...

The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...

Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, ...

To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

The purpose of the project was to improve the recognition and early goal directed treatment of pa...

The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...

The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

This webinar provided an understanding of how scientific operations management and IHO Variabilit...

A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...

Development of a Norwood Clinic allowed the quality improvement team to create goals to decrease ...

Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...

The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportuniti...

Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...

The AHA’s framework for health reform, Health for Life, embraces the need to engage patients and ...

From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...

The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...

Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

Imagine being hospitalized for a serious illness and being unable to communicate with nurses or d...

Webinars and presentations from the New England Health Impact Assessment Training Series in 2012.

Year after year, America’s hospitals respond to meet pressing community health care needs. In 200...

What is it? The RXAssistance Patient Assistance Program initiative began in 2005 as a collaborati...

The program director created the Individuals Combining Activity and Nutrition (ICAN) pilot progra...