Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

Care for people with multiple chronic health conditions is often fragmented, resulting in increas...

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

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

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

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

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

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

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

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 ...

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

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...

Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...

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

Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

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 ...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

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...

Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...

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

The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...

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

The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...

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

The Problem In 2004, Faxton Hospital and St. Luke's-Memorial Hospital merged. The leaders of the...

The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...

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 According to a study published online by Health Affairs on January 15, 2008, the med...

The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...

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

The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission s...

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...

The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...

The Problem Carolina Medical Center-Mercy worked on patient throughput in its ED, while developi...