Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

Until recently, Stony Brook University Medical Center's approach to core measure data consisted o...

Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...

Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

In 2005, Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center's leadership directed implementation of ...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...

In 2005, North Shore University Hospital's president and chief executive officer made a commitmen...

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

Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...

This project addresses the needs of patients at high risk for C. difficile on a complex medical u...

Rochester General Hospital formed a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement actions that ...

Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...

South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...

Pertussis is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis...

Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...

In 2009, St. James Mercy Hospital implemented a new quality and patient safety initiative, Achiev...

Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...

With hand hygiene compliance at 37.3 percent, Syosset Hospital implemented a comprehensive approa...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

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

John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...

HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides...

The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...

One measure in one area in one month: 1-1-1. That's the call-to-action plan employed by Parrish M...

2011 Guidelines

While many health care-acquired infections are transmitted by personal contact due to poor hand h...

Making cleanliness everyone's responsibility was part of an infection control and patient safety ...

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

Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

Texas Health Resources, a 14-hospital system based in Arlington, wanted to not only reduce ventil...

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

In 2005, the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children's Hospital of West Virginia exper...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for approximately 15 percent of all hospital-acquired infections ...

The Problem Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although S...

The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...

At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

The Problem Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is one of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant ba...

The Problem MRSA is a virulent bacteria that thrives in the health care setting, putting at grea...

Health care acquired infections in U.S. hospitals account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 a...

Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...

The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...

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

The ProblemUrinary tract infections are the most common infections in hospitals. The majority are...

The Problem The Pitt Country Memorial Hospital leadership team decided to reduce surgical compli...

The long-term care provider decided to tackle C. diff infections. Illness from C. diff commonly a...

The Problem Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a leading cause of death among all hospitalacquir...

The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...

The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...

The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...

The Problem Hand hygiene is the single most important way to prevent the spread of infection in ...

The Problem In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michi...

The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...

The Problem The infection rate in the NICU at Charleston Area Medical Center was 18 percent in 2...

The Problem OSF St. Mary Medical Center, in collaboration with the OSF system-wide Patient Safet...

The Problem Ventilator associated pneumonia are infections that occur in ventilator tubes and ac...