Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...

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

Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...

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

A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...

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

The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...

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

In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...

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

Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

Truven Health Analytics discusses key areas of focus for hospitals and care systems that want to ...

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

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

INTEGRIS Health is the largest Oklahoma-owned health care corporation. Its facilities cover the c...

The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...

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

Womansplace Crisis Center is committed to working toward the elimination of violence against wome...

Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network GoalsReduce patient harm by 40 percent and ...

The Collaborative on Reducing Hospital Readmissions GoalUnderstand readmission causes and adopt ...

Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...

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...