Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...

In July of 2009, Olean General Hospital embarked on a journey to improve outcomes for cardiac pat...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...

Virtual Health Village is a health information exchange for sharing secure, up-to-date student he...

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...

Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...

The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...

Medical center evidence pointed to a delay in surgery beyond 48 hours for hip fracture patients a...

The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

A performance improvement project was initiated to reduce the number of elective inductions and c...

The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...

South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...

The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care  began in 1972.  Home-based primary ca...

 Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...

April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...

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

Delivering the right care, at the right time, in the right place. That focus is the strategy for ...

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

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

Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

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

U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...

By focusing on preventive care and health promotion, hospitals are catalyzing change in their com...

Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, Ill., created a total knee and hip joint replacement center of excel...

Most hospitals collect race, ethnicity and language data, but a smaller percentage use the data i...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...

This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...

Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...

Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...

OSF Healthcare, Peoria, Ill., wanted to improve the care of patients experiencing an ST elevation...

Presence St. Mary’s Hospital, Kankakee, Ill., improved readmission rates for heart failure patien...

Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...

Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...

Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...

This infographic provides a sample of the findings from the 2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Ben...

The nation’s health care delivery system is in the midst of a transition from a fee-for-service a...

Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

Only 20 percent  of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients at the hospital were properly ...

Only 20 percent  of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients at the hospital were properly ...

During 2011, the hospital joined the IHA Project Re-Engineering Discharge (RED) collaborative to ...

Improving patient safety, leading multiple improvement efforts and moving to value-based care: Th...

This updated chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of...

As our nation's population becomes more diverse, health care organizations are continuously prese...

Continuing on the second-curve series, HPOE highlights the Second Curve of Population Health info...

A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

Transition coaches may be the “glue” between hospital visits and primary care. So says Julie Cann...

Transition coaches may be the “glue” between hospital visits and primary care. So says Julie Cann...

Crossroad Health Center is a federally qualified health center and level 3 patient-centered medic...

All practices participating in Better Health Greater Cleveland collect and submit data on patient...

Improving care after discharge translates to decreased readmissions. Marshall Medical Center, a 1...

Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...