Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This article discusses the evidence base behind population health management and explores the fut...

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

Responding to an explosive growth in patient population, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented a su...

"We will open the doors." This was no magic incantation. Instead, the critical care unit at Virgi...

Poor planning. High costs. These issues helped prompt Saint Joseph-London in London, Ky., to impr...

Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges ...

Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...

Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...

The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...

Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...

An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...

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

Through HFMA's Value Project, health care finance leaders are joining their clinical partners to ...

Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented

In late 2010, NAPH administered an online survey to quality directors (or their designee) at 101 ...

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

Listening to patients and the community can spark change. The Lehigh Valley Health Network, in ea...

Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...

This guide serves to explore the concept of cultural competency and build the case for the enhanc...

Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...

The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...

The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...

The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...

Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...

Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...

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

To expertly execute a dribble handoff in basketball, communication between teammates is key. How ...

To expertly execute a dribble handoff in basketball, communication between teammates is key. How ...

Kapi'olani Medical Center for Women and Children in Honolulu, Hawaii, used "a novel approach" to ...

Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...

March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

An analysis of the current market

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

A focus on wellness to provide better health and better health care is part of the AHA's Health F...

At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago, Nancy Donaldson, R.N., dir...

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

 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

One measure in one area in one month: 1-1-1. That's the call-to-action plan employed by Parrish M...

The journey from good to great for Good Samaritan Hospital of Baltimore started with differentiat...

The US Department of Veterans Affairs comprehensive Clinical Practice program brings together VA ...

2011 Guidelines

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

The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...

This 46-page document reviews the history of Regional Health Improvement Collaboratives and consi...

An NQF endorsement reflects rigorous scientific and evidence-based review, input from patients an...

The report provides: Background on health and wellness programs and how they are incentivized ...

This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

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...

At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago this fall, Kathi Patterson,...

When Olean (NY) General Hospital decided to improve medication management by using technology, it...

While many health care-acquired infections are transmitted by personal contact due to poor hand h...

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

This report discusses the process of conducting a Health Impact Assessment and proposes a busines...

Rarely does an orthopedic physician discuss information workflow with an ER doc, but at Regions H...

Making cleanliness everyone's responsibility was part of an infection control and patient safety ...

At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...

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...

When an employee found directions in her hospital?s emergency department?with directions to other...

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

After reading many success stories about hospitals streamlining and improving patient flow in the...

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

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

After defining patient-centered medical homes, this report discusses particular opportunities and...

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

The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon.  The average for Lehi...

The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon.  The average for Lehi...

Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...

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 ...

A wrong-site surgery on a toe was the catalyst for a comprehensive new surgical time-out initiati...

Seamless, effective patient handoffs are a critical piece of any hospital?s patient safety framew...

For many hospitals, the road to improved quality often begins with transparency, where unexpected...

This compendium of guides, reports, and toolkits provides a wealth of actionable resources to hel...

The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...

A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...

The Problem Administrative burdens and inefficient processes left nurses spending just one-third...

As hospitals and health systems adjust to a new health care environment, quality performance and ...

Moving from a paper world to an electronic one is an "evolution," says Marcy Stoots, RN, director...

Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Kirkland, Wash., implemented best practices in patient flow bu...

For expectant mothers at risk for childbirth complications, the OB assist team at Abington (Pa.) ...

Texas Health Resources, a 14-hospital system based in Arlington, wanted to not only reduce ventil...

The report focuses on the overall concept of ACOs. And also provides special focus on the specifi...

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

For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...

ED bottlenecks are common problems in hospitals causing excessive wait times, decreasing patient ...

Reducing preventable harm by half is a lofty goal for any hospital, let alone a large, integrated...

Reducing preventable harm by half is a lofty goal for any hospital, let alone a large, integrated...

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

This article addresses health care innovations that can help improve population and meet future h...

When the Infection Prevention and Control Department of Medical Center of McKinney in McKinney, T...

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