Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

Engaging Leadership and Governance in Quality and Patient Safety Initiatives Ensuring safe, high...

Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...

This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...

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

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

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

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...

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

Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls a...

Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...

Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...

Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...

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

There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

The Safety Assurance Factors for EHR Resilience (SAFER) Guides are a suite of tools that include ...

Never underestimate the power of data. Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Hospital focused on collecting and...

Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...

This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...

The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...

Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...

More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...

In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care commi...

Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...

43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

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

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

As health care facilities continually look to strengthen their falls prevention programs and resp...

Rob Olson, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bellingham, Wash., sold his solo practice when he ...

Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...

Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...

Though more work needs to be done, our nation's hospitals are making advancements in providing qu...

The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...

At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...

Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...

Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...

This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...