Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Many of the nation's hospitals and health systems have made progress laying the building blocks f...

Board members have a critical role to play in setting the tone for meaningful quality improvement...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

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

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

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

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

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

This webinar provided an understanding of how scientific operations management and IHO Variabilit...

Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportuniti...

The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...

Sentara HealthcareNorfolk, VA Sentara Healthcare is a nonprofit health care system headquartered...

What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

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

A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...

In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...

Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

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

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...

ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...

Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services t...

Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...

An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat...

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...

The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

Clinical integration is needed to facilitate the coordination of patient care across conditions, ...

On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

Implementing clinical practice guidelines can improve the quality of patient care and positively ...

Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...

This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...

The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...