Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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

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

A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is ac...

Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

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

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

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

Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...

This podcast series explores a variety of different topics around patient safety and performance ...

St. Joseph Regional Health Center went on a Lean journey to not only save money, but improve the ...

Lean transformation means improved patient care, employee satisfaction and reduced costs as MSHA ...

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...

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

Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

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

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

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

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...

In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...

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

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...

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

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

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

The Problem Wait times in the hospital's inpatient rehabilitation center were unacceptable; some ...

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...