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Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gundersen Health System is an integrated tertiary referral center ...
A key component to making patient care safer is to track your data and progress towards improveme...
April is National Minority Health Month. Led by the HHS Office of Minority Health, the 2016 event...
When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...
This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...
Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana, is working with community stakeholders, inc...
Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...
Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 79 bed, community hospital serving the residents of eas...
Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP) is a nonprofit comprehensive health care system based in Los...
Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...
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...
One patient safety tool can be used in all care and service areas, improving safety and quality f...
Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...
The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...
The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to trans...
Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...
Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...
A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...
As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...
Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...
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...
The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...
For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...
The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...
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...
Mercy Medical Center committed to delivering the highest quality care with the greatest efficienc...
Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...
Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...
The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...
North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...
As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...
TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...
Telemedicine, successfully used in many areas of medicine, has yet to be evaluated during the reh...
Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...
Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...
As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...
New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...
Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...
The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...
In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...
The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...
This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...
In 2015, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded HRET to strengthen care transitions by crea...
The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...
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 ...
TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...
Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...
Overcoming language barriers with patients improves communication, a critical element of safety a...
Hospitals and health systems are focusing on cultural competence to create an environment and wor...
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...
Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...
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...
The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...
Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...
Hospital readmissions are costly for both patients and facilities. At the time of discharge, pati...
Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...
This AHRQ video vignette illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention....
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...
The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...
The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...
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...
Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care thr...
The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...
The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identi...
The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...
North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...
Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...
North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...
The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website highlights quality improvement stories at hundreds...
NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...
Teamwork champions on a diverse change team: These were key as The MetroHealth System in Clevelan...
In early 2011, AHA members, committees, regional policy boards and staff discussed and crafted a ...
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 ...
Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...
This infographic provides a summary of the HPOE guide “Partnering to Improve Quality and Safety: ...
Diversity and inclusion are key strategic goals at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in cen...
This New York Times blog was written by a resident in internal medicine at Massachusetts General ...
The concept of the Triple Aim is widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...
Each year, the Illinois Hospital Association recognizes and celebrates the achievements of Illino...
Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...
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...
Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Outcomes Improvements, 30-Day Readmissions and Morta...
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...
Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...
During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....
GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries This case study is part of the Illinois Hospital Associ...
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...