Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Staff at this community-based rural hospital in northwest Illinois that treats more than 18,000 e...

The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...

Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...

The Community Health Network (CHN) targets the socioeconomic determinants of health that are not ...

Today, about one out of three children and adolescents ages 2-19 in the United States is overweig...

This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for ...

The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...

The goal of this project was to standardize protocols for controlling patient pain following tota...

Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), defined as a deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary emboli, is linke...

Turnaround time for immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains in the laboratory of a 500 bed tertiary car...

Limited provider appointment availability in the clinic was causing delays for patients seeking c...

The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...

Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...

This project has decreased cycle time for medication reconciliation at time of admission and for ...

The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...

Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...

The 2012 New England Compounding Center tragedy and ongoing drug shortages have caused a dramatic...

Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...

The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...

The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...

The goal of this project was to reduce the incidence of contrast-induced neuropathy (CIN) as a re...

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...

Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...

Concussions are a growing problem for young athletes. The hospital’s overall goal is to educate a...

The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...

Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

Patient falls during hospitalization can lead to increased inpatient care costs, decreased patien...

The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...

The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...

Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...

The health system did not have an adequate process for notifying staff when a patient was on cont...

As identified in its 2014 Culture of Safety survey, the hospital’s overall mean score for the sta...

A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...

Inappropriate stress ulcer prophylaxis is a serious problem across the health care continuum. Lit...

In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...

The project focused on managing sepsis in the emergency department and in admitted patients, with...

Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...

Sepsis is a medical condition with high rates of morbidity, mortality and cost and it is the most...

The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...

The ultimate goal for patients who are mechanically ventilated is to promptly and safely disconti...

High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

The project includes a hard stop chain of command. When scheduling an induction or C-section, the...

For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...

The medical center has made significant progress in improving physician-patient communication thr...

The prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) is a major focus for health care orga...