Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...

Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...

Through this initiative, Highland Healthcare Associates IPA seeks to improve the physician's expe...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...

Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

The Care Tracker program at Signature Healthcare collates data from multiple sources, including b...

Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...

Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

The School Based Care Coordination Program supports at-risk youth and families in two school dist...

Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...

CDC data shows that over 70 percent of patients with pre-diabetes will develop type 2 diabetes du...

To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...

In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...

The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...

Hallmark Health System, Inc., is participating in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (C...

With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...

At Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, the pediatric intensive care unit has been implem...

Dedicated to eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections, North Shore Medical Center...

Approximately 28 percent of the hospital's patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) are readm...

Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...

The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...

A collaborative network of hospitals and community organizations is improving behavioral health c...

This webinar will focus on two hospital-interfaith collaborations, one in Memphis that has been i...

Sanpete Valley Hospital, a critical access hospital in Mount Pleasant, Utah, is leading behaviora...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) released the Nurse Executive Competencies: P...

To address disparities in health care outcomes, Main Line Health is proactively addressing socioe...

More and more hospitals and health systems are leading community collaborations to create positiv...

Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...

The largest drivers of disease in populations are unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, unhealthy...

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

This case study presents the story of CareSouth Carolina and the Northeastern Rural Health Networ...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

  Violence is a serious safety issue for many communities and hospitals across the United States...

Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

It is certain that health status is profoundly influenced by the places in which people live, wor...

More than 90 percent of U.S. hospitals are committed to population health. This is according to a...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...

In July of 2009, Olean General Hospital embarked on a journey to improve outcomes for cardiac pat...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...

To support hospitals embarking on their population health journey, the Health Research & Educatio...

This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...

Apps and iPads are tools of choice for improving the health of Pennsylvania schoolchildren. Lehig...

Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...

The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...

Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) 2012 community health needs assessment, in which communiti...

This infographic provides a summary of the HPOE guide “Partnering to Improve Quality and Safety: ...

Two health care systems and more than 20 community organizations are improving the health and wel...

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

Working with community organizations, including competitors, Palmetto Health is improving the hea...

The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

As part of Blueprint for Health (a statewide, public-private initiative authorized by the Vermont...

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

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

There are opportunities around the country for dramatic innovation in the way health systems tran...

The CDC features a new website featuring prevention training, tools and tips for prevention pract...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and CVS Health will colaborate to put lifesaving...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

May 31 - June 6, 2015, is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health...

Patient engagement is paramount to reducing readmissions and improving quality of life. That’s wh...

HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...

In addition to identifying priority health needs and aligning partners and resources to address c...

In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...

n 2013, San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center, Conejos County Hospital and five clinics officia...

United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...

The hospital recognized an urgent need to improve the current rate of colorectal cancer screening...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...