Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...

To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

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

A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...

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

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...

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

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

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

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

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...

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

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

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

The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...

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

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

The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...

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...