Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...

I have been so proud to see America’s hospitals and health systems speak so passionately on behal...

Like many hospitals, SBH Health System uses the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. ...

Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...

This project has decreased cycle time for medication reconciliation at time of admission and for ...

Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...

The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...

Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...

A local urology department partnered with the performance improvement department to identify oppo...

Surgery case cancellation rates OSF Center for Health were 10.5 percent over six months. This cre...

In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

Sylvia Getman, president and CEO of the Aroostook Medical Center and senior vice president of Eas...

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

This webinar introduces and explains the ONC-sponsored SAFER guides, which can be found at http:/...

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and intrusions pose risks for every hospital and its reputation. Wh...

With the rise in higher-deductible health plans and coinsurance, Americans are paying an increasi...

Managing population health, financial planning for value-based care and payment, and leading impr...

The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...

Hospitals and health care systems can support their missions and also many additional benefits by...

Hospitals and health care systems are faced with unprecedented challenges and opportunities as th...

The April issue of Health Services Research journal is now available. Covering topics in variati...

A special issue of Health Services Research on “Health Information Technology” is now available. ...

The Missouri Hospital Association issued the Standardized, Plain Language Emergency Codes Impleme...

Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...

St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

This annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health c...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

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...

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

What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

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 ...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

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

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

AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...

ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...

Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...

An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...

Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

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...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

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

A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

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

The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

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

The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...

This online executive dialogue explores CPOE implementation. Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their ex...

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...

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

With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...

Continuum Health Partners'  pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...

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

Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

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

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

Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...

In 2010, Southampton Hospital discovered that its process for checking and maintaining equipment/...

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

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...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

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

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

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

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...

 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

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...

The Problem Administrative burdens and inefficient processes left nurses spending just one-third...

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

When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...

The Problem The average ED length of stay was 413 minutes (6 hours, 53 minutes). Fourteen percen...

The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...