Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

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

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

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

Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

Though more work needs to be done, our nation's hospitals are making advancements in providing qu...

Marking its 60th anniversary last year, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, can count many accompli...

Small but mighty describes Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hosp...

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

Communication breakdowns continue to be a leading cause of medical errors. Staff at Butler County...

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

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

Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...

Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

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

When Kaiser Permanente in California measured its incidence of pressure ulcers in patients three ...

A technique used in aviation is being applied to health care once again. To detect early malfunct...

Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...

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

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

Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...

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

The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...

Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...

Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

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

March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago, Nancy Donaldson, R.N., dir...

One measure in one area in one month: 1-1-1. That's the call-to-action plan employed by Parrish M...

When Olean (NY) General Hospital decided to improve medication management by using technology, it...

While many health care-acquired infections are transmitted by personal contact due to poor hand h...

Making cleanliness everyone's responsibility was part of an infection control and patient safety ...

At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...

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

The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon.  The average for Lehi...

Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

When Poudre Valley Health System, based in Fort Collins, Colo., started using bedside medication ...

A wrong-site surgery on a toe was the catalyst for a comprehensive new surgical time-out initiati...

For many hospitals, the road to improved quality often begins with transparency, where unexpected...

Texas Health Resources, a 14-hospital system based in Arlington, wanted to not only reduce ventil...

For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...

When Katherine Herrmann, the clinical quality facilitator at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, w...

When the Infection Prevention and Control Department of Medical Center of McKinney in McKinney, T...