Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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

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

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

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 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...

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

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

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

One patient safety tool can be used in all care and service areas, improving safety and quality f...

The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...

UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...

Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 406-bed facility in Yuma, Arizona, used best practices and peer-t...

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

It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...

There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...

43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

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...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

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...

The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...

This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...

The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...

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

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 ...

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

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

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

The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

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

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...