Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

HPOE has teamed up with the Illinois Hospital Association to highlight its yearly quality awards....

Presence St. Joseph's Medical Center's project implemented interventions to maintain patient func...

In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...

Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...

Children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function and survival rates if their body mass ind...

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improve...

Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...

Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...

Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, a 184-bed facility in Elgin, Illinois, examined quality metrics t...

St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...

St. John's Hospital, a 431-bed facility in Springfield, Illinois, used best practices and peer-to...

UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...

What is it? Now in its third year, Camp Med is a three-day, hands-on experience at the hospital t...

Read about how Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare developed a minority nusing program that identifies ...

Read about the many programs that Novant Health has developed around leadership diversity includi...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

Based in the Pennsylvania cities of Allentown, Bethlehem and Hazleton, Lehigh Valley Health Netwo...

Baystate Health, based in Springfield, Mass., has two formal mentorship programs available to its...

The Minority Faculty Development Awards program at University Hospitals Case Medical Center in Cl...

The University of Mississippi Medical Center created a Healthcare Disparities Council with 40 mem...

Greenville Health System in South Carolina overhauled its leadership search and selection process...