Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center established the Quality Excellence Council at the beg...

Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

In December 2008, the hospital spotlighted national Hospital Quality Measures performance and fou...

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

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...

This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

The Respiratory Protection Webkit includes a 10-module Respiratory Protection Course and accompan...

The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....

The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...

Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

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

This toolkit from OSHA is availalbe to the public and contains references, educational resources ...

Sylvia Getman, president and CEO of the Aroostook Medical Center and senior vice president of Eas...

Learning, sharing resources and discussing projects on cutting-edge topics in health care transfo...

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

The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...

The country’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improveme...

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

The transformation of health care is occurring at a rapid pace causing an increase in the need to...

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

Avista Adventist Hospital, a 114-bed facility in Louisville, Colorado, used best practices and pe...

Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, used best practice...

Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...

Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...

Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...

Lexington Regional Health Center, a 25-bed facility in Lexington, Nebraska, used best practices a...

Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

Midstate Medical Center, a 134-bed facility in Meriden, Connecticut, committed to reducing harm a...

NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, a 184-bed facility in Elgin, Illinois, examined quality metrics t...

Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...

St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...

St. John's Hospital, a 431-bed facility in Springfield, Illinois, used best practices and peer-to...

UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...

Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 406-bed facility in Yuma, Arizona, used best practices and peer-t...

This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

The Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development recently released the report Bridging ...

Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...

This webinar introduces and explains the ONC-sponsored SAFER guides, which can be found at http:/...

In order to achieve the Triple Aim, hospital leaders must implement strategies to achieve the Sec...

Identifying solutions to reduce hospital-acquired conditions. Working to spread this knowledge to...

The Employee Flu Immunization Campaign Kit is designed to help hospitals, nursing homes, and othe...