Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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 ...

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

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...

Stern Family Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation tracked hospital readmissions and found ...

Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

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...

The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

Falls increased in Thompson Health's inpatient areas in 2009 and 2010, and the number of falls wa...

In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

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

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...

Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...

This project addresses the needs of patients at high risk for C. difficile on a complex medical u...

Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...

South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...

Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...

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

Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...

With hand hygiene compliance at 37.3 percent, Syosset Hospital implemented a comprehensive approa...

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

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

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...

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...

SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...

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...

This certified CME/CE activity is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence...

This certified CME/CE activity addresses professional practice gaps in the optimal care of chroni...

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

The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

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...

Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...

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

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...

HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides...

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...

Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...

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

Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

This study examined SSDI applications between 2005 and 2006, focusing on a "natural experiment" t...

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...

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

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

The Problem Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although 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 Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...