Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Newark Department of Child and Family Well-BeingNewark NJ The Problem In 2003, The Newark (N.J.)...

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

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

The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

The hospital was experiencing higher costs and lower quality care than its competitors based on d...

The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...

To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...

A collaborative effort among Harborview Medical Center, two massage schools, the Southeast Seattl...

This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

Beginning in August 2007, the Arizona Department of Health Services' Health Disparities Center or...

In order to deliver the highest quality and most appropriate health care, Georgia Health Sciences...

After several monthly reviews of reported adverse drug events, hypoglycemia ranked highest for th...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...

St. John?s Institute for Cognitive Health and the University of Utah Center for Alzheimer?s Care,...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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

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

For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...

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...

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

In 2005, Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center's leadership directed implementation of ...

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

Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...

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

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

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

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

AIM focuses care on people with advanced illness, which often involves more than one chronic diag...

Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds  The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...

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

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

The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...

The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

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

The Problem Communication is listed as the leading factor in the root causes of sentinel events ...

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