Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...

Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...

Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

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

The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

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

For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...

Walk into an ER for treatment and walk out with a medical home. Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospit...

Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

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

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

Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...

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

Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...

A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...

Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...

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...

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

An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...

Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

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

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

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

Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...

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

A strategy to use a single, integrated EMR has helped make Elliot Health System, based in Manches...

Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...

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

Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...

Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

The answer is: attracting, retaining and developing the best workforce. The question: What is one...