Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

How do you successfully integrate behavioral health and primary care? A recent HPOE webinar highl...

This webinar highlights the upcoming HPOE action guide, "Eliminating Catheter-Associated Urinary ...

Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the national frequency of po...

Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...

Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...

Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...

Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...

Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...

According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

The hospital was experiencing higher costs and lower quality care than its competitors based on d...

Early and safe mobility of critically ill patients in a cardiovascular surgical intensive care un...

After several monthly reviews of reported adverse drug events, hypoglycemia ranked highest for th...

A nurse-driven protocol was implemented to increase the staff’s awareness on the appropriate indi...

After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...

The hospital joined the On the CUSP: Stop BSI  collaborative offered by IHA. The focus was on CLA...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections continued to occur in the adult ICU despite the im...

In October 2010, Memorial Medical Center implemented an intervention “bundle” designed to reduce ...

A hospital study was conducted to evaluate the practicality and effectiveness of UV light as a ge...

The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...

Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, ...

To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

The purpose of the project was to improve the recognition and early goal directed treatment of pa...

The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...

The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...

Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

This webinar provided an understanding of how scientific operations management and IHO Variabilit...

The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

Today we need leaders who can help address the challenges and maximize the tremendous opportuniti...

Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...

The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...

Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

Sentara HealthcareNorfolk, VA Sentara Healthcare is a nonprofit health care system headquartered...

Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders were at a higher risk of po...

What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...

In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...

The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

The November issue of Trustee magazine delves into hospital mergers with a cover article featurin...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...

In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...

The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

This how-to guide describes the essentials elements of preventing obstetrical adverse events, inc...

Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

Three hazards involve health IT system-related technologies While today's health technology adva...

This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...

Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

With more than 11,000 members, ASHE is the largest association devoted to optimizing the health c...

ASHHRA of the AHA, is the leading membership organization exclusively dedicated to meeting the pr...

Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

Health Forum provides communications, information, education and research products and services t...

Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...

An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat...

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...

This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...

The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

Clinical integration is needed to facilitate the coordination of patient care across conditions, ...

On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

Implementing clinical practice guidelines can improve the quality of patient care and positively ...