Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...

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

San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

University of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MS623 Beds The Problem University of Mississipp...

University HospitalsCleveland, OH1,032 Beds The Problem To address the changing demographics of ...

AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

The Respecting Choices' advance care planning program, developed in La Crosse, Wisconsin, is a mu...

In 2006, Ascension Health, the nation's largest Catholic and nonprofit health care system, chose ...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...

This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...

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

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

Summa Health SystemAkron, OH461 Beds The Problem Summa Health System serves a five county region...

This report provides a guide to conducting health impact assessments. It stresses the importance ...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, OpenNotes is being tested by...

The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...

Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) have the promise to transform how health care is delivered ...

During this 90 minute session, speakers discussed how to effectively engage patients and their fa...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

The IPAL Project, an initiative of the Center to Advance Palliative Care, is designed to provide ...

Success in strategic organizational initiatives depends on changing the way people work together.

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...

CAPC Campus Online is an e-learning space covering the structural, operational and financial ess...

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

This certified CME/CE series is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence-b...

This paper explores the current limits of primary care in the US, looks at illustrative models th...

The federal Affordable Care Act will transform how Californians obtain health insurance. CHCF exa...

As the use of palliative care grows, so does the diversity of patients who opt for it. A free cur...

The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...

HHS final standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability ...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...

A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members  race a...