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A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...
The project focused on managing sepsis in the emergency department and in admitted patients, with...
Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...
The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...
The ultimate goal for patients who are mechanically ventilated is to promptly and safely disconti...
The project includes a hard stop chain of command. When scheduling an induction or C-section, the...
The medical center has made significant progress in improving physician-patient communication thr...
The prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) is a major focus for health care orga...
Reducing inpatient length of stay has a strong impact on value and organizational performance, an...
Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are a major cause of morbidity and morta...
The clinic throughput time was viewed as excessive and lacked standardized best practices. A new ...
This project involves raising awareness and expanding the palliative care program at HSHS St. Joh...
By using evidence-based medicine and hardwiring concurrent review, HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Hig...
Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...
Senior leadership at Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System assembled an improvement team to use...
The blood bank relocated to a new hospital facility while the labor and delivery (L&D) unit remai...
Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process...
Every aspect of a patient’s experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused reso...
The University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital recently develope...
The AHA's Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative have relea...
Rates of inpatient medication errors range from 45 to 76 percent, with most errors occurring on-a...
Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...
Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...
In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...
An integrated health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avera Health serves patie...
Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...
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 ...