Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...

The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

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...

Patients are often poorly prepared to manage acute and chronic conditions following their dischar...

Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Outcomes Improvements, 30-Day Readmissions and Morta...

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

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

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

GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries This case study is part of the Illinois Hospital Associ...

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

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

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

GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries

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

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...

The goal was to reduce the delay in patient care by reducing patient wait times, both from reques...

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

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

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

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...

July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...

The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

As part of Blueprint for Health (a statewide, public-private initiative authorized by the Vermont...

The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...

A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

The hospital recognized an urgent need to improve the current rate of colorectal cancer screening...

This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

Children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function and survival rates if their body mass ind...

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improve...

Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, used best practice...

Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...

Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...

In August 2014, Campbell County Health became the first health care facility in Wyoming to be app...

Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...

Read about how Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare developed a minority nusing program that identifies ...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...

Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center created a Healthcare Disparities Council with 40 mem...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management's Summer Enrichment Program matches and places m...

California's Central Valley is known for its abundant fruits and vegetables; however, many famili...

Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...

Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...

With four hospitals and more than 120 employed medical providers, St. Charles Health System is a ...

During 2011, the hospital joined the IHA Project Re-Engineering Discharge (RED) collaborative to ...

A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

Using a Community Needs Assessment, Morris Hospital, which serves 18 rural communities, identifie...

All practices participating in Better Health Greater Cleveland collect and submit data on patient...

After identifying inequities with affordable access to primary care services and an uncoordinated...

This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...

Healthy Communities of Clinton County Coalition Two teams of community members--a coalition of h...

Fletcher Allen Health Care's  Community Benefit CommitteeBurlington, VT About the Initiative:In ...