Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The hospital joined the On the CUSP: Stop BSI  collaborative offered by IHA. The focus was on CLA...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections continued to occur in the adult ICU despite the im...

In October 2010, Memorial Medical Center implemented an intervention “bundle” designed to reduce ...

A hospital study was conducted to evaluate the practicality and effectiveness of UV light as a ge...

The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...

Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, ...

To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

The purpose of the project was to improve the recognition and early goal directed treatment of pa...

The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...

The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...

Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

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

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

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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