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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
Communication breakdowns continue to be a leading cause of medical errors. Staff at Butler County...
When Kaiser Permanente in California measured its incidence of pressure ulcers in patients three ...
Implementing quality improvement projects can improve patient safety and reduce inefficiency. But...
A strategy to use a single, integrated EMR has helped make Elliot Health System, based in Manches...
Care coordination is challenging for complex and vulnerable patient populations. Montefiore Medic...
To promote healthy communities, hospitals must lead the way and serve as role models. A recent AH...
Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...
Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...
Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...
Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...
The answer is: attracting, retaining and developing the best workforce. The question: What is one...
Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...
Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...
Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...
Responding to an explosive growth in patient population, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented a su...
Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...
An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...
Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...
Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...
"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...
Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...
A focus on wellness to provide better health and better health care is part of the AHA's Health F...
The journey from good to great for Good Samaritan Hospital of Baltimore started with differentiat...
At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago this fall, Kathi Patterson,...
While many health care-acquired infections are transmitted by personal contact due to poor hand h...
Rarely does an orthopedic physician discuss information workflow with an ER doc, but at Regions H...
When an employee found directions in her hospital?s emergency department?with directions to other...
Quality improvement and transparency go hand in hand, David Ballard, M.D., senior vice president ...
After reading many success stories about hospitals streamlining and improving patient flow in the...
Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...
Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...
The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon. The average for Lehi...
Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...
Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...
Seamless, effective patient handoffs are a critical piece of any hospital?s patient safety framew...
As hospitals and health systems adjust to a new health care environment, quality performance and ...
Moving from a paper world to an electronic one is an "evolution," says Marcy Stoots, RN, director...
Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Kirkland, Wash., implemented best practices in patient flow bu...
For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...
ED bottlenecks are common problems in hospitals causing excessive wait times, decreasing patient ...
Reducing preventable harm by half is a lofty goal for any hospital, let alone a large, integrated...
When the Infection Prevention and Control Department of Medical Center of McKinney in McKinney, T...
When the H1N1 flu virus emerged in the spring of 2009, U.S. hospitals were challenged by crowded ...
The 3,500 employees of Eastern (Bangor) Maine Medical Center are role models for other employees ...
When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...