Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...

The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...

Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

This webinar provided an understanding of how scientific operations management and IHO Variabilit...

The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...

Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders were at a higher risk of po...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...

Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...

This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

America’s hospitals are committed to protecting the health and well-being of all patients, especi...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...