Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...

HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

This study examined SSDI applications between 2005 and 2006, focusing on a "natural experiment" t...

Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

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...

Presented by Eric A. Coleman, MD,  this webinar addressed proposed changes in how hospitals are r...

Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...

The Problem Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although S...

The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...

The Problem Like many hospitals, Westmoreland struggled with significant ED crowding and patient...

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...

The Problem Wait times in the hospital's inpatient rehabilitation center were unacceptable; some ...

The Problem MRSA is a virulent bacteria that thrives in the health care setting, putting at grea...

The content of this best-practices guide, and the process by which it was assembled, are emblemat...

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...

The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...

The Problem Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a leading cause of death among all hospitalacquir...

The Problem St. Francis struggled getting non-emergent patients from the door to an ED bed in a ...

The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...

The Problem According to the American Heart Association, heart failure affects about 5.7 million...

The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...

Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve...