Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Cultural competency is critical to reducing health care disparities and improving access to high-...

Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three exampl...

  Violence is a serious safety issue for many communities and hospitals across the United States...

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

In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health ...

This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

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

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

Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...

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

In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

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

  For more than two decades, health services researchers have been using statewide hospital disc...

A new HPOE Guide “Increasing Supplier Diversity in Health Care” provides action steps and case st...

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

It is certain that health status is profoundly influenced by the places in which people live, wor...

More than 90 percent of U.S. hospitals are committed to population health. This is according to a...

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

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...

The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

To support hospitals embarking on their population health journey, the Health Research & Educatio...

What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Que...

As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...

Addressing the complex needs of older patients and their caregivers is the focus of the Bridge Mo...

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 ...

Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) 2012 community health needs assessment, in which communiti...

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

Leadership is needed to direct resources and programs aimed at reducing health care disparitities...

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

Two health care systems and more than 20 community organizations are improving the health and wel...

Diversity is becoming a key word in health care. Hospitals and health care systems are focusing o...

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center established the Quality Excellence Council at the beg...

Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

Working with community organizations, including competitors, Palmetto Health is improving the hea...

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...

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...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

HPOE has teamed up with the Illinois Hospital Association to highlight its yearly quality awards....

Presence St. Joseph's Medical Center's project implemented interventions to maintain patient func...

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...

In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

The Respiratory Protection Webkit includes a 10-module Respiratory Protection Course and accompan...

The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

There are opportunities around the country for dramatic innovation in the way health systems tran...

The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

May 31 - June 6, 2015, is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health...

Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...

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...

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

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...