Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

The report provides a scientific base and practical guidance fo rengaging public health professio...

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

Racial and socioeconomic inequity persists in health care quality. An exploratory interview with ...

Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

This study examined SSDI applications between 2005 and 2006, focusing on a "natural experiment" t...

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

This article presents four case studies of effective community and academic partnership that impr...

Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

Quality improvement and transparency go hand in hand, David Ballard, M.D., senior vice president ...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

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

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

Abington Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from the chie...

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

When Poudre Valley Health System, based in Fort Collins, Colo., started using bedside medication ...

This guide communicates the idea that workforce and human resource practices can positively impac...

When Katherine Herrmann, the clinical quality facilitator at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, w...

Presented by Eric A. Coleman, MD,  this webinar addressed proposed changes in how hospitals are r...

Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...

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

Extending services beyond the hospital walls to its most vulnerable patients?that is the goal of ...

The Problem Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although S...

The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...

The Problem Like many hospitals, Westmoreland struggled with significant ED crowding and patient...

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

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

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 Problem MRSA is a virulent bacteria that thrives in the health care setting, putting at grea...

The content of this best-practices guide, and the process by which it was assembled, are emblemat...

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

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

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

The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...

The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...

The Problem Standard care for a patient in cardiac arrest has been cardiopulmonary resuscitation...

The Problem Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a leading cause of death among all hospitalacquir...

The Problem St. Francis struggled getting non-emergent patients from the door to an ED bed in a ...

The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

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

The Problem According to the American Heart Association, heart failure affects about 5.7 million...

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

Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve...

The Diversity & Inclusion Council was developed to create and sustain an organizational culture t...

The St. Francis Medical Center Kitty DeGree Breast Health Center employs a full-time breast healt...

Holy Cross Hospital Health Centers are primary care medical centers that provide affordable servi...

Equity in Care was initiated by Trinity Health in 2009 and has grown to include identifying poten...

These programs take health education, information and related services directly to community memb...

W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...

This article discusses strategies to maximize improvement in overall population health and sugges...

This article argues that policy actions must focus on income security, education, housing, food s...

The TriCentral Palliative Care Program toolkit presents a wide range of educational, technical as...