Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Meritus Health’s replacement hospital, Meritus Medical Center, opened five years ago in Washingto...

Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...

Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...

Nine in 10 adults in the community lacked the literacy skills to manage their health and prevent ...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...

Diversity and inclusion are key strategic goals at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in cen...

Their journey to eliminate falls with injury started last year, working towards a safety culture ...

Patients are often poorly prepared to manage acute and chronic conditions following their dischar...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection is the second most commonly reported hospital-associa...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections continue to be associated with high costs and mort...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

This toolkit has tips on  Selecting Patients and Families to Serve as Advisors Preparation fo...

The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....

The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, works close...

Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...

A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...

Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...

Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...