Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This weekend kicks off a not-to-be-missed event for hospital and health system leaders: the AHA’s...

Stony Brook University Hospital coordinated efforts with its emergency department and ambulatory ...

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

U.S. health care leaders are continually working to improve care processes while advancing a medi...

There is a critical need to elevate the discussion around workforce planning and development to e...

BackgroundHenry Ford Health System is a not-for-profit corporation composed of hospitals, medical...

BackgroundMedStar Health is a not-for-profit health system in the Maryland and Washington, D.C., ...

BackgroundOchsner Health System in southeast Louisiana manages 13 hospitals and more than 40 heal...

SBH Health System implemented numerous strategies to reduce the number of Cather-Associated Urina...

All future performance improvement projects will address health care disparities. That’s the comm...

Hospitals are working to achieve all elements of the Triple Aim by redesigning traditional ways o...

Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...

MedEx Bedside Prescription Delivery is the very first bedside medication delivery service for hos...

In 2016, Cleveland Clinic was honored by the American Hospital Association (AHA) with its Equity ...

Since 2012, the Aiming for Zero program at Northwell Hospital is continuously working to reduce C...

  The patient experience is more important today than ever before, with payments tied to patie...

The best way to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) is to limit the use ...

According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...

Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...

Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...

Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

While the implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ venous thromboembolism ...

The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...

This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...

Staff at this community-based rural hospital in northwest Illinois that treats more than 18,000 e...

The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...

Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...

The goal of this project was to standardize protocols for controlling patient pain following tota...

The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...

Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...

The 2012 New England Compounding Center tragedy and ongoing drug shortages have caused a dramatic...

Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...

The goal of this project was to reduce the incidence of contrast-induced neuropathy (CIN) as a re...

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...

Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...

Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

Patient falls during hospitalization can lead to increased inpatient care costs, decreased patien...

The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...

The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...

The health system did not have an adequate process for notifying staff when a patient was on cont...

A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...

A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...

The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...

The project includes a hard stop chain of command. When scheduling an induction or C-section, the...

The prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) is a major focus for health care orga...

The clinic throughput time was viewed as excessive and lacked standardized best practices. A new ...

This project involves raising awareness and expanding the palliative care program at HSHS St. Joh...

By using evidence-based medicine and hardwiring concurrent review, HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Hig...

Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

Senior leadership at Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System assembled an improvement team to use...

Every aspect of a patient’s experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused reso...

Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...

Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...

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

An integrated health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avera Health serves patie...

Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gundersen Health System is an integrated tertiary referral center ...

April is National Minority Health Month. Led by the HHS Office of Minority Health, the 2016 event...

When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...

Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...

Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 79 bed, community hospital serving the residents of eas...

Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP) is a nonprofit comprehensive health care system based in Los...

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

Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

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

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...

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...