Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...

The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

Mercy Medical Center committed to delivering the highest quality care with the greatest efficienc...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...

TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

Telemedicine, successfully used in many areas of medicine, has yet to be evaluated during the reh...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...

New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...

Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...

The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...

In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...

The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

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

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

Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...

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

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

The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...

Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...

Hospital readmissions are costly for both patients and facilities. At the time of discharge, pati...

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

The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...

The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...

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...

Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care thr...

The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identi...

The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...

Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...

NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

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...

Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Outcomes Improvements, 30-Day Readmissions and Morta...

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...

Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...

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