Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

HPOE has teamed up with the Illinois Hospital Association to highlight its yearly quality awards....

Presence St. Joseph's Medical Center's project implemented interventions to maintain patient func...

This toolkit has tips on  Selecting Patients and Families to Serve as Advisors Preparation fo...

The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

The Respiratory Protection Webkit includes a 10-module Respiratory Protection Course and accompan...

The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

There are opportunities around the country for dramatic innovation in the way health systems tran...

The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

May 31 - June 6, 2015, is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health...

Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, works close...

Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...

Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...

This article highlights what hospitals are doing to improve access to behavioral health services....

This toolkit from OSHA is availalbe to the public and contains references, educational resources ...

In addition to identifying priority health needs and aligning partners and resources to address c...

Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

Learning, sharing resources and discussing projects on cutting-edge topics in health care transfo...

Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...

Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

The country’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improveme...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

When hospitals care for victims of violence, it provides a window of opportunity to interrupt the...

This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

Children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function and survival rates if their body mass ind...

Working with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, this infographic summarizes the findings of a re...