Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

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

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...

In 2005, North Shore University Hospital's president and chief executive officer made a commitmen...

NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...

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

Rochester General Hospital formed a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement actions that ...

Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...

Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...

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

John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online...

2011 Guidelines

Texas Health Resources, a 14-hospital system based in Arlington, wanted to not only reduce ventil...

The Problem Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is one of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant ba...

Health care acquired infections in U.S. hospitals account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 a...