Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Yuma District HospitalYuma, CO12 Beds The Problem Yuma District Hospital, located in Yuma, Color...

In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...

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

Young children who missed more than half of recommended well-child visits had up to twice the ris...

Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

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

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

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

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

 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

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

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...

Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

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

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

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

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...

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...