Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

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...

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

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.

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

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

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