Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

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

The School Based Care Coordination Program supports at-risk youth and families in two school dist...

For the past 30 years, the Healthcare for the Homeless Program has addressed the health needs of ...

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

The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...

CDC data shows that over 70 percent of patients with pre-diabetes will develop type 2 diabetes du...

To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

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

At Boston Medical Center, a multidisciplinary team developed a strategy to reduce pulmonary compl...

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 ...

Hallmark Health System, Inc., is participating in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (C...

The Hospital Group focused on reducing the readmission rate on the rehabilitation service unit (R...

With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...

At Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, the pediatric intensive care unit has been implem...

Dedicated to eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections, North Shore Medical Center...

MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...

Approximately 28 percent of the hospital's patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) are readm...

Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...

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

T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...

The Massachusetts Hospital Association (MHA) created the Accountable Care Compass Awards to highl...

A collaborative network of hospitals and community organizations is improving behavioral health c...

To effectively identify racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care, it is essential ...

At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...

This webinar will focus on two hospital-interfaith collaborations, one in Memphis that has been i...

Every day, hospitals are successfully meeting challenges and providing quality care in their comm...

Focusing on value-based payment structures has helped Mount Auburn Hospital design care delivery ...

Hospitals and health care systems are striving to achieve the Triple Aim—improving the patient ex...

Sanpete Valley Hospital, a critical access hospital in Mount Pleasant, Utah, is leading behaviora...

The American Organization of Nurse Executives (AONE) released the Nurse Executive Competencies: P...

In 2015, the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation funded HRET to strengthen care transitions by crea...

To address disparities in health care outcomes, Main Line Health is proactively addressing socioe...

The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...

The Chairman’s File columns provide just a glimpse of the excellent work that our nation’s hospit...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...

More and more hospitals and health systems are leading community collaborations to create positiv...

In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...

Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...

Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...

The largest drivers of disease in populations are unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, unhealthy...

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

This case study presents the story of CareSouth Carolina and the Northeastern Rural Health Networ...

Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has help...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

Overcoming language barriers with patients improves communication, a critical element of safety a...

Cultural competency is critical to reducing health care disparities and improving access to high-...

Hospitals and health systems are focusing on cultural competence to create an environment and wor...

Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three exampl...

  Violence is a serious safety issue for many communities and hospitals across the United States...

Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...

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

In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health ...

This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

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 ...

Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...

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...

Patient safety is the number one priority at this facility. After discussing medication errors at...

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

In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

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...

This AHRQ video vignette  illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention....

A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

  For more than two decades, health services researchers have been using statewide hospital disc...

A new HPOE Guide “Increasing Supplier Diversity in Health Care” provides action steps and case st...

Nine in 10 adults in the community lacked the literacy skills to manage their health and prevent ...

It is certain that health status is profoundly influenced by the places in which people live, wor...

More than 90 percent of U.S. hospitals are committed to population health. This is according to a...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

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...

The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...

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

Blood transfusions to treat anemia can have a significant impact on patient outcomes. It was reco...

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...

The NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System implemented multidisciplinary ICU mobilization teams t...

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

In July of 2009, Olean General Hospital embarked on a journey to improve outcomes for cardiac pat...

The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website highlights quality improvement stories at hundreds...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

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

 White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital Center’s interdisciplinary team developed a disinfection procedure ...

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...