Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...

This AHRQ video vignette  illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention....

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

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

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

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

Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care thr...

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

The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identi...

Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...

The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website highlights quality improvement stories at hundreds...

Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...

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

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

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

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

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

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, works close...

St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...

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

Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...

Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...

A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...

The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

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

Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...