Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...

Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...

America’s hospitals are committed to protecting the health and well-being of all patients, especi...

Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

Fully two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. One-third of American children are overwei...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

This chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of care th...

Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

Among the agencies that have made a substantial effort toward competency is the Nursing Home Ombu...

Fairfield Memorial Hospital identified the need to improve the patient experience in the emergenc...

As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...

Rush-Copley Medical Center collaborated with the Kane County Health Department after an outbreak ...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

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

The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...

Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...

A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...

As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

This webinar highlighted the necessity to eliminate elective early term deliveries due to its imp...

The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...

This webinar highlighted the essential elements within care coordination strategies for the dual ...

Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...

The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.  The award...

This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...

This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...

This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...

This online executive dialogue explores CPOE implementation. Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their ex...

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...

Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

The use of "triggers" or clues to identify adverse events is an effective method for measuring th...

Teamwork benefits seniors, too. A partnership between Wishard Health Services?a large safety net ...

Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...

Until recently, Stony Brook University Medical Center's approach to core measure data consisted o...

The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...

Continuum Health Partners'  pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...

In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...

Olean General Hospital is one of only a few community hospitals in the nation to offer a center o...

This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...

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