Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

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

This webpage gives tips for safely disposing (getting rid of) needles and other sharp devices tha...

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

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

CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

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...

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented

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

2011 Guidelines

This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

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

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

An AHA research synthesis report presents an overview of bundled payment, including evidence of i...

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

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...

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

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

The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...

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

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

The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...

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

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...

Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...

The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...

The Problem According to a study published online by Health Affairs on January 15, 2008, the med...

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

The Problem MRSA accounts for more than 18,000 deaths annually nationwide, according to the CDC....

The ProblemUrinary tract infections are the most common infections in hospitals. The majority are...

The ProblemMedication errors in the health care delivery system are the most common type of error...

The Problem The Pitt Country Memorial Hospital leadership team decided to reduce surgical compli...

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

The Problem The results of blood tests are crucial to physician decision making. At St. Luke's, ...

The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...

The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...

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

The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission s...

The Problem Bronson's patient safety committee appointed a task force to look at medication erro...

The Problem With the national average of hospital-acquired skin breakdown at 4.8 percent, Bronso...