Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...

This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...

This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. Francis Hospita...

Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...

Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

In 2006, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation declared a bold vision for patient safety...

In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...

The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...

Falls increased in Thompson Health's inpatient areas in 2009 and 2010, and the number of falls wa...

In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

In 2005, Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center's leadership directed implementation of ...

Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...

In 2005, North Shore University Hospital's president and chief executive officer made a commitmen...

NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...

Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...

This project addresses the needs of patients at high risk for C. difficile on a complex medical u...

Rochester General Hospital formed a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement actions that ...

Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...

South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...

Pertussis is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis...

Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...

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...

Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...

Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...

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

In 2008, a project was underway to renovate Southampton Hospital's emergency department (upgradin...

In 2010, Southampton Hospital discovered that its process for checking and maintaining equipment/...

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...

In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...

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

Go to kp.org with your smartphone, or download the free Kaiser Permanente app at Android Market t...

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

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...

This report provides a detailed discussion of baseline health spending by state of residence (per...

Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...

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

RWJF video details three perspectives on the need for cost information

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

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

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...

CMS issued a final rule with comment period that updates payment policies and rates for physician...

Payers are considering bundled payments for inpatient surgery, combining provider reimbursements ...

One of the leading alternative payment models proposed in the Affordable Care Act of 2010 is bund...

Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

Among the health promotion and cost-control strategies included in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) ...

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...

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

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

Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

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...

This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health a...

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

The Rand Health Insurance Experiment found that patients had little or no control over their hea...

While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

The U.S. is facing an epidemic of chronic disease at the same time as it's facing tough decisions...

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

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

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...

Through HFMA's Value Project, health care finance leaders are joining their clinical partners to ...

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 ...

The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

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

This study examined SSDI applications between 2005 and 2006, focusing on a "natural experiment" t...