Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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...

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

A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...

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

With nearly half of all emergency departments operating at or above capacity and the majority of ...

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

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

Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

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

Rome Memorial Hospital began this project as a prelude to developing a progressive mobility progr...

The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...

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...

Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...

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

Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

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 ...

The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...

In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...

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

Olean General Hospital is one of only a few community hospitals in the nation to offer a center o...

The average length of stay for patients undergoing single elective total joint replacement surger...

This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. Francis Hospita...

Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...

In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...

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

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...

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

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

In 2005, North Shore University Hospital's president and chief executive officer made a commitmen...

NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...

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...