Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

Smart infusion pump technology improves patient safety by providing decision support for nursing ...

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

South Nassau Communities Hospital initiated the "Knot So Fast" project to promote a safe and effi...

In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...

The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

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

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

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

For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...

Rome Memorial Hospital began this project as a prelude to developing a progressive mobility progr...

Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

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

Olean General Hospital is one of only a few community hospitals in the nation to offer a center o...

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

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

The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

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

At Mountainside Residential Care Center's resident council, residents requested an improved dinin...

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

The average length of stay for patients undergoing single elective total joint replacement surger...

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

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

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

As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

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

With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...

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

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

The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...

Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...

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

Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...

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

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...

At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...

Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...

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

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

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

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

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

Multidisciplinary rounding (MDR) is a model of care in which multiple members of the care deliver...

Medication, in addition to other treatment options, is an integral part of the care provided to l...

For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...

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

For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...

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

This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...