Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

St. Mary's Healthcare has an obligation to protect patients from harm and preventing adverse effe...

The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...

University HospitalsCleveland, OH1,032 Beds The Problem To address the changing demographics of ...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, OpenNotes is being tested by...

The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

This certified CME/CE series is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence-b...

This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

As the use of palliative care grows, so does the diversity of patients who opt for it. A free cur...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...

The Diversity & Inclusion Council was developed to create and sustain an organizational culture t...

The St. Francis Medical Center Kitty DeGree Breast Health Center employs a full-time breast healt...