Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

2011 Guidelines

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon.  The average for Lehi...

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...

Presented by Eric A. Coleman, MD,  this webinar addressed proposed changes in how hospitals are r...

In 2005, the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children's Hospital of West Virginia exper...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for approximately 15 percent of all hospital-acquired infections ...

The Problem Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although S...

The Problem Vanderbilt's project didn't address a problem so much as it focused on a goal: to be...

The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...

As a result of care coordination activities with Medicare patients, the opportunity to improve pa...

The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...

At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

The Problem The organization was recording more patient falls than its leadership considered acc...

The Problem Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is one of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant ba...

The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...

The Problem MRSA is a virulent bacteria that thrives in the health care setting, putting at grea...