Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

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

The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...

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

Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

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

Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

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 ...

The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...

A multidisciplinary team was formed to increase the rate of risk assessment and appropriate thera...

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

During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are forming in communities across the country. In ACOs, hea...

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

This guide provides hospital leaders with a snapshot of hospitals' current readiness to participa...

The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

An annual list of the top 100 hospitals in the United States.

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

To meet patient needs in the current market, hospitals have traditionally focused their efforts o...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

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

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators from AHRQ, and s...

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

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

An Evidence-informed Case Rate is a budget for a comprehensive episode of medical care within a d...

An interactive map showing quality initiatives by state

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

HRET and the Commonwealth Fund reviewed research findings regarding the characteristics and proce...

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...

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

South Nassau Communities Hospital initiated the "Knot So Fast" project to promote a safe and effi...

At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...

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...

Stern Family Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation tracked hospital readmissions and found ...

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

Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

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

For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...

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

Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...

Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...

The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

Falls increased in Thompson Health's inpatient areas in 2009 and 2010, and the number of falls wa...

In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...

Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...

This project addresses the needs of patients at high risk for C. difficile on a complex medical u...

Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...

South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...

Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...

St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...

With hand hygiene compliance at 37.3 percent, Syosset Hospital implemented a comprehensive approa...

Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...

Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...

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...

University of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MS623 Beds The Problem University of Mississipp...

Baylor Health Care SystemDallas, TX3,653 Beds The Problem The Baylor Health Care System Office o...

Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...

University HospitalsCleveland, OH1,032 Beds The Problem To address the changing demographics of ...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...

Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

This toolkit provides a comprehensive approach to the collection of race, ethnicity and primary l...

New York-Presbyterian HospitalNew York, NY2,264 Beds The Problem New York-Presbyterian Hospital’...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...

This article discusses the imperitive to invest in community development as a means to improve po...

This article discusses the socioeconomic factors necessary for health in a community. The author ...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...