Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...

Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...

A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...

The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...

A multidisciplinary team was formed to increase the rate of risk assessment and appropriate thera...

As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...

During this webinar, hear how AnMed Health is applying the principles of REaL (race, ethnicity an...

Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...

May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...

May 13-19 is National Women's Health Week, a project of the U.S. Health and Human Services' Offic...

Accountable care organizations (ACOs) are forming in communities across the country. In ACOs, hea...

Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

This web seminar highlighted improvements in staff training and building the culturally competent...

This guide provides hospital leaders with a snapshot of hospitals' current readiness to participa...

The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

With nearly half of all emergency departments operating at or above capacity and the majority of ...

Communication breakdowns continue to be a leading cause of medical errors. Staff at Butler County...

An annual list of the top 100 hospitals in the United States.

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

This webinar highlighted the necessity to eliminate elective early term deliveries due to its imp...

For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...

For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

The results from a 32-month long national collaborative, Expecting Success: Excellence in Cardiac...

This list features five recommendations for family medicine. The goal is to identify items: commo...

This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...

The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...

The group collaboratively identified and narrowed down screening or diagnostic tests commonly use...

An initial list of topics was narrowed down based on the highest potential for improvement, repre...

To meet patient needs in the current market, hospitals have traditionally focused their efforts o...

The authors found little evidence that participation in the Premier HQID program led to lower 30-...

This webinar highlighted the essential elements within care coordination strategies for the dual ...

Walk into an ER for treatment and walk out with a medical home. Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospit...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...

The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.  The award...

This statistic may surprise you: Mental health conditions and mood disorders including depression...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators from AHRQ, and s...

A key element of the PCMH model is engaging patients and caregivers in their care. This paper off...

This paper explores the current landscape of patient-centered medical home services for patients ...

This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...

This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...

An Evidence-informed Case Rate is a budget for a comprehensive episode of medical care within a d...

This online executive dialogue explores CPOE implementation. Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their ex...

Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...

An interactive map showing quality initiatives by state

The patient safety portal includes links to valuable tools and resources.

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

HRET and the Commonwealth Fund reviewed research findings regarding the characteristics and proce...

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...

Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

The use of "triggers" or clues to identify adverse events is an effective method for measuring th...

My goal in this article is to use the laws of physics to help readers think in new ways about sha...

Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...

Improving quality of care can go hand in hand with eliminating disparities in care. University of...

Teamwork benefits seniors, too. A partnership between Wishard Health Services?a large safety net ...

This report utilizes Dartmouth Atlas data to show differences in resource utilization among the 2...

According to a recent Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society survey, 41 percent of...

Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...

Achieving health care equity and eliminating health care disparities are a top goal of hospitals ...

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...