Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

St. Mary's Healthcare has an obligation to protect patients from harm and preventing adverse effe...

North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...

Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...

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

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