Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The Association of American Medical Colleges is pleased to present Diversity in Medical Education...

Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

This report is part of a new effort to provide medical students with information about the patter...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

Secondary analysis of data from two studies examining palliative care in rural areas was conducte...

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

As health care facilities continually look to strengthen their falls prevention programs and resp...

Rob Olson, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bellingham, Wash., sold his solo practice when he ...

Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

This web seminar provided participants with information about diversity management, cultural comp...

Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

Although Maryland enjoys the third highest median income in the United States, the state suffers ...

The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...

Using Plan-Do-Study-Act, this initiative prioritized utilization of spirometry as the standard di...

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...

During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators from AHRQ, and s...

This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

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

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 ...

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

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

San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

University of Mississippi Medical CenterJackson, MS623 Beds The Problem University of Mississipp...

University HospitalsCleveland, OH1,032 Beds The Problem To address the changing demographics of ...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...

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

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

In many contexts, cesarean delivery has come to be regarded as the safer option, when in fact it ...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

The National Committee for Quality Assurance starts an accountable care organization accreditati...

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

The paper makes recommendations for enhancing QI efforts in health care, including providing stro...

HHS final standards for data collection on race, ethnicity, sex, primary language and disability ...

Treating U.S. veterans with mental illness and substance use disorders is more expensive than car...

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

In 2003 the Institute of Medicine called on health plans to collect data on their members  race a...

The October issue focuses on disparities in health care, including an article on high-cost, low-q...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

A report released jointly by AARP's Public Policy Institute, The Commonwealth Fund and The SCAN F...

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

Changing demographics continue to fuel the growth of cultural diversity in Northeast Ohio. In tur...

The guide is a resource for those interested or already engaged in quality improvement initiative...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

This report discussses the Center for Disease Control's involvement with Prevention Research Cent...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

The Urgency of Health System Reforms to Ensure Respect for Patients'  Wishes and Accou...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

The Problem Progress West didn't so much have a problem but an opportunity. By opening a new hos...

The Problem Standard care for a patient in cardiac arrest has been cardiopulmonary resuscitation...

The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

The Diversity & Inclusion Council was developed to create and sustain an organizational culture t...

The St. Francis Medical Center Kitty DeGree Breast Health Center employs a full-time breast healt...

Equity in Care was initiated by Trinity Health in 2009 and has grown to include identifying poten...

W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...

The TriCentral Palliative Care Program toolkit presents a wide range of educational, technical as...