Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Nurses at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, part of Catholic Health, introduced a Diabetes Education Qui...

Serious dental problems can affect the overall well-being of an individual. Therefore, Mount St. ...

The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...

The University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital recently develope...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

While there is broad agreement on the general concepts defining patient-centered medical homes, l...

Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...

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

AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

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

W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...