Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members  race a...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

The October issue focuses on disparities in health care, including an article on high-cost, low-q...

The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

This white paper introduces an overall approach and tools designed to support two processes: the ...

The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of public and private employers who purchase health care for mor...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...

A video on how to care for blind or sight-impaired individuals in a hospital

The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides...

In a recent study, the non-profit Commonwealth Fund found that the U.S. ranks 16th out of 16 nati...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

In this article, the author argues that health equity is best achieved by securing access to high...

This article proposes an examination of health disparities through the lens of public health to p...

This article describes the development of the regional health collaborative, a population-based h...

This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health a...

In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

This brief, based on site visits from Nov. 2009 through March 2010, highlights care coordination ...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

The rate of "mortality amenable to health care" that is--deaths that are considered preventable w...

While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

The answer is: attracting, retaining and developing the best workforce. The question: What is one...

This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the car...

This website gives history and information to patients, providers, payers of western New York sta...

Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...

A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

The U.S. is facing an epidemic of chronic disease at the same time as it's facing tough decisions...

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...

Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...

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

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

This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

This site, sponsored by the Office of Minority Health, offers the latest resources and tools to p...

A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...

The latest Alliance issue brief reports on how collaboratives are working at the local level to i...

This article discusses the evidence base behind population health management and explores the fut...

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

Responding to an explosive growth in patient population, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented a su...

"We will open the doors." This was no magic incantation. Instead, the critical care unit at Virgi...

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

Drug prescriptions need to accurately identify the medications that prescribers intend for pharma...

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges ...

Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...

Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...

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

Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...

An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...

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

Through HFMA's Value Project, health care finance leaders are joining their clinical partners to ...

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 ...

The report provides a scientific base and practical guidance fo rengaging public health professio...

Listening to patients and the community can spark change. The Lehigh Valley Health Network, in ea...

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

This guide serves to explore the concept of cultural competency and build the case for the enhanc...

Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...

The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...

The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...

The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...

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

"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...