Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...

Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...

Overcoming language barriers with patients improves communication, a critical element of safety a...

Hospitals and health systems are focusing on cultural competence to create an environment and wor...

Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...

This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...

Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...

Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...

Hospital readmissions are costly for both patients and facilities. At the time of discharge, pati...

Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...

This AHRQ video vignette  illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention....

Nine in 10 adults in the community lacked the literacy skills to manage their health and prevent ...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...

The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...

Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care thr...

The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identi...

The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...

Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...

The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website highlights quality improvement stories at hundreds...

NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...

Teamwork champions on a diverse change team: These were key as The MetroHealth System in Clevelan...

In early 2011, AHA members, committees, regional policy boards and staff discussed and crafted a ...

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...

Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...

This infographic provides a summary of the HPOE guide “Partnering to Improve Quality and Safety: ...

Diversity and inclusion are key strategic goals at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in cen...

This New York Times blog was written by a resident in internal medicine at Massachusetts General ...

The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

Each year, the Illinois Hospital Association recognizes and celebrates the achievements of Illino...

Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

Their journey to eliminate falls with injury started last year, working towards a safety culture ...

Patients are often poorly prepared to manage acute and chronic conditions following their dischar...

Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Outcomes Improvements, 30-Day Readmissions and Morta...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection is the second most commonly reported hospital-associa...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections continue to be associated with high costs and mort...

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 This case study is part of the Illinois Hospital Associ...

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 ...

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...