Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

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...

Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

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

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...

Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

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

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

At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...

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 ...

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

In 2006, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation declared a bold vision for patient safety...

In 2008, a project was underway to renovate Southampton Hospital's emergency department (upgradin...

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