Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...

As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...

Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...

St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...

In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...

Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...

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

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...

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

Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...

The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...

The Problem Like many hospitals, Westmoreland struggled with significant ED crowding and patient...

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...

The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...

The Problem Wait times in the hospital's inpatient rehabilitation center were unacceptable; some ...

The content of this best-practices guide, and the process by which it was assembled, are emblemat...

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...

The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...

The Problem St. Francis struggled getting non-emergent patients from the door to an ED bed in a ...

The Problem According to the American Heart Association, heart failure affects about 5.7 million...

The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...