Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...

Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...

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

Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...

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

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

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

Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...

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

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

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

Reducing postoperative complications could reduce costs associated with readmissions by millions ...

The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

"App" and "austerity" were among the 2010 "words of the year" named by a dialect society and dict...

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

Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...

Poor planning. High costs. These issues helped prompt Saint Joseph-London in London, Ky., to impr...

Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented

In late 2010, NAPH administered an online survey to quality directors (or their designee) at 101 ...

Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...

The guide is based on the learning that emerged from a multi-year pilot project that aimed to red...

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

Presented by Eric A. Coleman, MD,  this webinar addressed proposed changes in how hospitals are r...

At Columbia St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, discharge planning truly begins at admission. Care te...

Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...

Aesop?s fable "The Bundle of Sticks" teaches a lesson in working together: "Union gives strength....

The guide is designed to serve as a quick, simple resource by outlining four steps: Examine yo...

The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30...

Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve...

In order to significantly impact the patients with HF and reduce their readmission rates at Prove...