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The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...
Their project was an effort to reduce DVT/PE incidence. This case study is part of the Illinois ...
Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...
During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....
GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries
The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...
The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...
The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...
Their project was an effort to reduce DVT/PE incidence. This case study is part of the Illinois H...
The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...
Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...
Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...
Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...
Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...
The goal was to reduce the delay in patient care by reducing patient wait times, both from reques...
Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...
The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...
This project was designed to improve the total health care for patients of a community mental hea...
This toolkit has tips on Selecting Patients and Families to Serve as Advisors Preparation fo...
The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...
The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....
National attention to the issue of antibiotic stewardship is increasing. Drug-resistant bacteria ...
The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, works close...
Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...
St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...
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...
Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...
At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...
Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...
United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...
South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...
Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....
Engaging Leadership and Governance in Quality and Patient Safety Initiatives Ensuring safe, high...
Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...
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...
April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...
A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...
To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...
The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...
This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...
Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...
Avista Adventist Hospital, a 114-bed facility in Louisville, Colorado, used best practices and pe...
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...
Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...
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...
University Hospitals, Cleveland, is advancing multiple care equity initiatives. The over 2,000-be...
Most hospitals collect race, ethnicity and language data, but a smaller percentage use the data i...
This HPOE webinar, held in conjunction with the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, fea...
Excellent patient-centered care is the goal of a program implemented by the team at McDonough Dis...
Read about how Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare developed a minority nusing program that identifies ...
Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...
This handy visual aid illustrates the main points from "2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Benchma...
Building a culture that is inclusive and founded on principles of diversity was a “key destinatio...
Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...
Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...
For nearly 20 years, Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in New Jersey has partnered with the...
The Minority Faculty Development Awards program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cl...
The University of Mississippi Medical Center created a Healthcare Disparities Council with 40 mem...
Greenville Health System in South Carolina overhauled its leadership search and selection process...
Recognizing the need for diversity management, Sparrow Heatlh System in Lansing, Mich., hired a d...
The Institute for Diversity in Health Management's Summer Enrichment Program matches and places m...
Identifying solutions to reduce hospital-acquired conditions. Working to spread this knowledge to...
Community members are integral partners at Lehigh Valley Health Network in Pennsylvania, helping ...
Preventing falls has been in the news recently, and with good reason: Among older adults, falls a...
California's Central Valley is known for its abundant fruits and vegetables; however, many famili...
The growing undergraduate public health movement in the nation is exciting; yet, concerns linger ...
The Arthur Ashe Institute for Urban Health, a partner of the Brooklyn Health Disparities Center, ...
African immigrants and refugees represent four percent of the total population in the United Stat...
In 2013, the Connecticut Multicultural State Partnership, a non-profit health advocacy group, rec...
Increasing the racial and ethnic diversity of the nation's health professions workforce has many ...
In a this video, leaders from CHRISTUS Health provide an overview of the Equity of Care initiativ...
The National Center for Health Care Leadership's diversity leadership demonstration project is th...
This HPOE webinar, held with the Institute for Diversity, highlights Henry Ford Health System, wh...
Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...
The answer is HPOE.org. The question: Where do hospital and care system leaders find resources an...
INTEGRIS Health is the largest Oklahoma-owned health care corporation. Its facilities cover the c...
This infographic provides a sample of the findings from the 2013 Diversity and Disparities: A Ben...
“Once a patient believes that you [the provider] understand them, we think the healing begins,” s...
Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...
Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...
Meridian Health is a leading not-for-profit health care organization in New Jersey, comprised of ...