Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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...

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

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

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

Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

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

Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...

A multidisciplinary team was formed to increase the rate of risk assessment and appropriate thera...

As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...

An annual list of the top 100 hospitals in the United States.

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.  The award...

An Evidence-informed Case Rate is a budget for a comprehensive episode of medical care within a d...

An interactive map showing quality initiatives by state

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...

At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...