Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. Francis Hospita...

Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...

In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...

NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...

Rochester General Hospital formed a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement actions that ...

Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...

In 2008, a project was underway to renovate Southampton Hospital's emergency department (upgradin...

The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...

In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...

San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

A strategy to use a single, integrated EMR has helped make Elliot Health System, based in Manches...

This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...

Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY1,418 Beds The Problem Montefiore Medical Center is a large, a...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...

Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...

A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

An AHA research synthesis report presents an overview of bundled payment, including evidence of i...

The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...

The Problem Like many hospitals, Westmoreland struggled with significant ED crowding and patient...

At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...

The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...

The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...

The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...

The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

The Problem In 2004, Faxton Hospital and St. Luke's-Memorial Hospital merged. The leaders of the...

The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...

The Problem According to a study published online by Health Affairs on January 15, 2008, the med...

The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...

The Problem MRSA accounts for more than 18,000 deaths annually nationwide, according to the CDC....

The Problem St. Francis struggled getting non-emergent patients from the door to an ED bed in a ...

The Problem The results of blood tests are crucial to physician decision making. At St. Luke's, ...

The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...

The Problem According to the American Heart Association, heart failure affects about 5.7 million...

The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission s...

The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...

The Problem Norwalk Hospital was an early developer and user of health information technology. I...

The Problem Carolina Medical Center-Mercy worked on patient throughput in its ED, while developi...

The report recommends improved ways in which primary care practices should be paid for delivering...