Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

On the Cusp Initiative GoalReduce the occurrence of two frequent hospital-acquired infections—ur...

Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network GoalsReduce patient harm by 40 percent and ...

The Collaborative on Reducing Hospital Readmissions GoalUnderstand readmission causes and adopt ...

Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality prize honors hospitals that have a committed in a systemic man...

It is both a sprint and a marathon.” That's how a team at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor,...

Only a small percentage of patients develop a health care-associated infection after surgery, and...

This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...

Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the flagship publication of the AHA, has put together a web...

Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...

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

The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...

The aviation industry has successfully used checklists to ensure safe air travel for passengers a...

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

New Ulm Medical CenterNew Ulm, MN45 Beds The Problem New Ulm Medical Center, a critical access h...

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

Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...

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

More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...

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

Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...

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

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

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...

In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...

 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

In 2009, the leadership team of this hospital empowered its multidisciplinary critical care commi...

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

Good patient/provider communication correlates with greater patient satisfaction, increased patie...

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

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...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

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...

Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

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...

Development of a Norwood Clinic allowed the quality improvement team to create goals to decrease ...

Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...

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

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

Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...

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

Methodist Le Bonheur HealthcareMemphis, TN1,321 Beds The Congregational Health Network is a part...

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

Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...

Use this tool to assess whether your health-related organization or system, or coalition of organ...

During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

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...

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...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

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...

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

The mobile app from HPOE will ensure you receive up-to-date alerts when new HPOE guides are relea...

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

HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...

The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

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...

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

The American Organization of Nurse Executives is the national organization of nurses who design, ...

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

Standardization of blood utilization practices could provide opportunity for improved outcomes, r...

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

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

The survey was sent by email to over 630,000 physicians (approximately 84 percent of all physicia...

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

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...

On the CUSP: Stop BSI and Stop CAUTI aim to eliminate central line associated bloodstream infecti...

The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...