Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...

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

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

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...

For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...

This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. Francis Hospita...

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

In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...

NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...

In 2010, Southampton Hospital discovered that its process for checking and maintaining equipment/...

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

Implementing quality improvement projects can improve patient safety and reduce inefficiency. But...

Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

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

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

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

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

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

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

The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...

Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...

Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...

Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...

An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...

Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...

At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago this fall, Kathi Patterson,...

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

When an employee found directions in her hospital?s emergency department?with directions to other...

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

After reading many success stories about hospitals streamlining and improving patient flow in the...

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

The Problem Administrative burdens and inefficient processes left nurses spending just one-third...

When the Infection Prevention and Control Department of Medical Center of McKinney in McKinney, T...

When the H1N1 flu virus emerged in the spring of 2009, U.S. hospitals were challenged by crowded ...

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

When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...

The Problem The average ED length of stay was 413 minutes (6 hours, 53 minutes). Fourteen percen...

The Problem ThedaCare selected its radiation oncology (rad-onc) department to kick off a systemw...

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

The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...

The Problem A new 192-room patient bed tower was constructed and designed with a new decentraliz...

The Problem In a 2008 medical staff satisfaction survey, 93 percent of Advocate Good Shepherd ph...

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 Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...

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

The Problem Hazleton General Hospital officials were unhappy with their performance on a number ...

The Problem According to a study published online by Health Affairs on January 15, 2008, the med...

The Problem MRSA accounts for more than 18,000 deaths annually nationwide, according to the CDC....

The Problem Communication is listed as the leading factor in the root causes of sentinel events ...

The Problem The results of blood tests are crucial to physician decision making. At St. Luke's, ...

The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...

The Problem Carolina Medical Center-Mercy worked on patient throughput in its ED, while developi...