Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Meritus Health’s replacement hospital, Meritus Medical Center, opened five years ago in Washingto...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

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

In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

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

The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...

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...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...

Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...

The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...

In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...

The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...

Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...

This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...

Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...

Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...

Hospital readmissions are costly for both patients and facilities. At the time of discharge, pati...

The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...

An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...

The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...

Patients are often poorly prepared to manage acute and chronic conditions following their dischar...

Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Outcomes Improvements, 30-Day Readmissions and Morta...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection is the second most commonly reported hospital-associa...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections continue to be associated with high costs and mort...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...

Their project was an effort to reduce DVT/PE incidence. This case study is part of the Illinois ...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...

Their project was an effort to reduce DVT/PE incidence. This case study is part of the Illinois H...

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

Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...

The goal was to reduce the delay in patient care by reducing patient wait times, both from reques...

Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

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

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