Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

“Small changes can make a big difference.” So say health care professionals working to prevent ad...

Using HOUDINI to eliminate CAUTI. It’s all about decreasing the inappropriate use of indwelling c...

The Sunday Shoes Program is an innovative solution to help heart failure patients monitor weight ...

Ten years ago, Mercy began telemedicine in its ICUs to improve patient outcomes. Today the St. Lo...

State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...

By adopting a supplier diversity program, hospitals and health care systems can support minority-...

Every day, hospitals are successfully meeting challenges and providing quality care in their comm...

Focusing on value-based payment structures has helped Mount Auburn Hospital design care delivery ...

Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...

In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...

Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three exampl...

Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...

In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health ...

Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...

Patient safety is the number one priority at this facility. After discussing medication errors at...

In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

A new HPOE Guide “Increasing Supplier Diversity in Health Care” provides action steps and case st...

The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...

Blood transfusions to treat anemia can have a significant impact on patient outcomes. It was reco...

The NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System implemented multidisciplinary ICU mobilization teams t...

 White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital Center’s interdisciplinary team developed a disinfection procedure ...

What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Que...

This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...

Addressing the complex needs of older patients and their caregivers is the focus of the Bridge Mo...

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center established the Quality Excellence Council at the beg...

The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

During the 2013-14 influenza season, an emergency preparedness mass influenza vaccination drill w...

The Healthy You program was designed to enhance whole person health of the hospital's team member...

The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

This project is aimed at reduction of adverse outcomes experienced by patients as a result of CLA...

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...

This project is aimed at reduction of adverse outcomes experienced by patients as a result of CLA...

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...

The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

Medical center evidence pointed to a delay in surgery beyond 48 hours for hip fracture patients a...

This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

In 2009, a multi-pronged approach involving all stakeholders was launched aimed at early identifi...

A performance improvement project was initiated to reduce the number of elective inductions and c...

The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...

In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...