Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...

April 11th, 2011
View

At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...

November 1st, 2010
View

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

September 13th, 2010
View

The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon.  The average for Lehi...

August 30th, 2010
View

Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...

August 23rd, 2010
View

For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...

May 24th, 2010
View

When Katherine Herrmann, the clinical quality facilitator at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, w...

May 3rd, 2010
View

Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...

April 5th, 2010
View

At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

September 24th, 2009
Download

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

September 21st, 2009
Download

The Problem Incorrect patient identification through the registration process increases the pote...

August 1st, 2009
Download

The Problem MRSA is a virulent bacteria that thrives in the health care setting, putting at grea...

August 1st, 2009
Download

The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...

August 1st, 2009
Download

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

August 1st, 2009
Download

The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...

August 1st, 2009
Download

The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...

August 1st, 2009
Download

The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...

August 1st, 2009
Download

The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...

July 1st, 2009
Download

The Problem Falls can occur at any time during the hospitalization, resulting in complications s...

July 1st, 2009
Download

The Problem In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michi...

July 1st, 2009
Download