Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

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

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

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

In an Oct. 17 webinar presented by Becker's Hospital Review, Scott Becker, a partner at McGuireWo...

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...

A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...

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

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

Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

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...

Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

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

Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...

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

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...

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

E-mail, e-books, e-commerce. And now for patients, eVisits. At the University of Pittsburgh Medic...

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

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

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

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

An annual list of the top 100 hospitals in the United States.

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

An Evidence-informed Case Rate is a budget for a comprehensive episode of medical care within a d...

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...

As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...

Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...

St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...

The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...

In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...

San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...

Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

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

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

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

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

This annual webinar highlights thhe 2011 AHA-McKesson  Quest forQuality winners and finalists. 20...

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

Quality improvement and transparency go hand in hand, David Ballard, M.D., senior vice president ...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...

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

This guide communicates the idea that workforce and human resource practices can positively impac...

Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...

The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...

The Problem Like many hospitals, Westmoreland struggled with significant ED crowding and patient...

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...

The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...

The Problem Wait times in the hospital's inpatient rehabilitation center were unacceptable; some ...

The content of this best-practices guide, and the process by which it was assembled, are emblemat...

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...

The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...

The Problem St. Francis struggled getting non-emergent patients from the door to an ED bed in a ...