Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Cortland Regional Medical Center’s Transitional Care Program is working to reduce 30-day readmiss...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize recognizes leadership and innovation in quality improvem...

In July 2016, the AHA/HRET Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) 2.0 hosted a state hospital associat...

Since September 2015, the American Hospital Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust...

Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...

The hospital identified an opportunity to improve its discharge planning process to allow more ti...

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

This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for ...

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

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...

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

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 medical center has made significant progress in improving physician-patient communication thr...

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

The blood bank relocated to a new hospital facility while the labor and delivery (L&D) unit remai...

Rates of inpatient medication errors range from 45 to 76 percent, with most errors occurring on-a...

Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...

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

The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

Teamwork champions on a diverse change team: These were key as The MetroHealth System in Clevelan...

This infographic provides a summary of the HPOE guide “Partnering to Improve Quality and Safety: ...

This New York Times blog was written by a resident in internal medicine at Massachusetts General ...

Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

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

A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, used best practice...

Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...

Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...

Identifying solutions to reduce hospital-acquired conditions. Working to spread this knowledge to...

Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...

A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...

In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...

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

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

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...

Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...

At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...

Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators from AHRQ, and s...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

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

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

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

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

This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...

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

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 ...

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...

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, ...

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...

Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...

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