Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

In 2009, St. James Mercy Hospital implemented a new quality and patient safety initiative, Achiev...

St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...

With hand hygiene compliance at 37.3 percent, Syosset Hospital implemented a comprehensive approa...

A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...

Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...

Smart infusion pump technology improves patient safety by providing decision support for nursing ...

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...

Medication, in addition to other treatment options, is an integral part of the care provided to l...

An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...

As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...

Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...

This study used written portfolios to capture reflective learning that trainees described about t...

SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...

The Minnesota Hospital Association's SAFE SKIN program provides hospital leaders with resources o...

Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

This webpage gives tips for safely disposing (getting rid of) needles and other sharp devices tha...

This certified CME/CE activity is designed to heighten the awareness of and adherence to evidence...

This certified CME/CE activity addresses professional practice gaps in the optimal care of chroni...

The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

John Combes, M.D., president of the Center for Healthcare Governance, talks to H&HN Senior Online...

Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Steering Committee for the Prevention of H...

HAP launches a health care worker universal influenza vaccination campaign. The campaign provides...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

Health care professionals and patients all agree that wrong site surgery is a serious and prevent...

Results from the 2010 survey about readmission activities are presented

In late 2010, NAPH administered an online survey to quality directors (or their designee) at 101 ...

An analysis of the current market

Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

2011 Guidelines

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon.  The average for Lehi...

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...

Presented by Eric A. Coleman, MD,  this webinar addressed proposed changes in how hospitals are r...

In 2005, the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children's Hospital of West Virginia exper...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for approximately 15 percent of all hospital-acquired infections ...

The Problem Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although S...

The Problem Vanderbilt's project didn't address a problem so much as it focused on a goal: to be...

The Problem More than one million serious medication errors occur each year in U.S. hospitals. T...

As a result of care coordination activities with Medicare patients, the opportunity to improve pa...

The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...

At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

The Problem The organization was recording more patient falls than its leadership considered acc...

The Problem Clostridium difficile (C. diff) is one of the most dangerous antibiotic-resistant ba...

The Problem Medication safety is a strategic imperative in the organization. Each aspect of the ...

The Problem MRSA is a virulent bacteria that thrives in the health care setting, putting at grea...

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

The Problem Hazleton General Hospital officials were unhappy with their performance on a number ...

The Problem Hazleton General Hospital is committed to providing compassionate, patient-centered,...

Health care acquired infections in U.S. hospitals account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 a...

Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...

The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...

The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...

The Problem Medication errors are among the most common medical errors, harming at least 1.5 mil...

The Problem MRSA accounts for more than 18,000 deaths annually nationwide, according to the CDC....

The ProblemUrinary tract infections are the most common infections in hospitals. The majority are...

The ProblemMajor abdominal surgery, such as elective colon surgery or major hernia repair, is hig...

The ProblemMedication errors in the health care delivery system are the most common type of error...

The Problem The Pitt Country Memorial Hospital leadership team decided to reduce surgical compli...

The long-term care provider decided to tackle C. diff infections. Illness from C. diff commonly a...

The Problem Almost 20 percent of Medicare beneficiaries are readmitted to the hospital within 30...

The Problem Ventilator-associated pneumonia is a leading cause of death among all hospitalacquir...

The Problem The results of blood tests are crucial to physician decision making. At St. Luke's, ...

The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...

The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...

The Problem Central line-associated bloodstream infections have vexed hospitals performing inter...