Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...

PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

The Quality Transformation Network is a large and growing group of children's hospitals combining...

This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...

The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

The Health Disparities Cancer Collaborative implemented six components of the chronic care model ...

This commentary was written by  Daren R. Anderson, MD, vice president and chief quality officer, ...

Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

This article discusses how clinically at-risk and socially disadvantaged populations may not be f...

This toolkit presents Muskegon County's Community Health Needs Assessment  process and results, a...

Studies suggest that the presence of multiple chronic conditions (MCC) adds a layer of complexity...

Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...

Though more work needs to be done, our nation's hospitals are making advancements in providing qu...

University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

UNC Hospitals is committed to providing a patient-centered care environment. A team of leaders is...

A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

A collection of 10 short essays by the industry luminaries who have received HRET's TRUST Award s...

Marking its 60th anniversary last year, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, can count many accompli...

Small but mighty describes Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hosp...

E-mail, e-books, e-commerce. And now for patients, eVisits. At the University of Pittsburgh Medic...

Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

Partner's created the Center for Connected Health to promote technology-enabled innovations in te...

Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in American men, after skin cancer. According to...

America’s hospitals are committed to protecting the health and well-being of all patients, especi...

Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

Fully two-thirds of Americans are overweight or obese. One-third of American children are overwei...

It?s estimated that patients remember and understand about half of the information they receive f...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

This chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of care th...

Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

This discussion paper analyzes factors that attribute to  better outcomes at lower costs. The aut...

This article discusses divergent concepts of population health between care delivery systems and ...

Although Maryland enjoys the third highest median income in the United States, the state suffers ...

Among the agencies that have made a substantial effort toward competency is the Nursing Home Ombu...

Fairfield Memorial Hospital identified the need to improve the patient experience in the emergenc...

As part of Franciscan St. James Health's commitment to improve the surgery processes, the hospita...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...