Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

A collection of 10 short essays by the industry luminaries who have received HRET's TRUST Award s...

Marking its 60th anniversary last year, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, can count many accompli...

Small but mighty describes Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hosp...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

America’s hospitals are committed to protecting the health and well-being of all patients, especi...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...

Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

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

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...

Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

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

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

A multidisciplinary team was developed with objectives to provide clear, easy to understand educa...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

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

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

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

The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...

Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...

A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...

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

A multidisciplinary team was formed to increase the rate of risk assessment and appropriate thera...

As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...

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

Communication breakdowns continue to be a leading cause of medical errors. Staff at Butler County...

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

This webinar highlighted the necessity to eliminate elective early term deliveries due to its imp...

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

The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...