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

March 6th, 2013
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The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...

March 1st, 2013
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Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

June 1st, 2012
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The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

June 1st, 2012
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The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

April 30th, 2012
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With nearly half of all emergency departments operating at or above capacity and the majority of ...

April 27th, 2012
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Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...

February 1st, 2012
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In 2008, a project was underway to renovate Southampton Hospital's emergency department (upgradin...

February 1st, 2012
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Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...

February 1st, 2012
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Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

January 1st, 2012
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Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

December 1st, 2011
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Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

October 9th, 2011
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Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...

August 8th, 2011
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A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...

August 1st, 2011
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Responding to an explosive growth in patient population, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented a su...

July 25th, 2011
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An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...

June 13th, 2011
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Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...

May 9th, 2011
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Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...

March 14th, 2011
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Rarely does an orthopedic physician discuss information workflow with an ER doc, but at Regions H...

November 29th, 2010
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When an employee found directions in her hospital?s emergency department?with directions to other...

October 18th, 2010
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