Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...

Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...

St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

This certified CME/CE activity addresses professional practice gaps in the optimal care of chroni...

Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

Steve Riney, Chief Information Officer at Methodist Medical Center of Illinois in Peoria, talks t...

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

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

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

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

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

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...

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

Racial and socioeconomic inequity persists in health care quality. An exploratory interview with ...

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

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

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

This guide communicates the idea that workforce and human resource practices can positively impac...

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

Extending services beyond the hospital walls to its most vulnerable patients?that is the goal of ...

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

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

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

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...

Holy Cross Hospital Health Centers are primary care medical centers that provide affordable servi...

W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...