Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

An intervention to prevent childhood obesity has blossomed into a communitywide effort led by a l...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

The link between hunger, food insecurity and poor health has been clearly acknowledged as a serio...

Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...

State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

The new HPOE  guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...

Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier ...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to trans...

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...

Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

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...