Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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...

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...

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...

Rome Memorial Hospital began this project as a prelude to developing a progressive mobility progr...

Until recently, Stony Brook University Medical Center's approach to core measure data consisted o...

At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...

Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Stern Family Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation tracked hospital readmissions and found ...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

Continuum Health Partners'  pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...

Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...

Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...

In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...

Olean General Hospital is one of only a few community hospitals in the nation to offer a center o...

The average length of stay for patients undergoing single elective total joint replacement surger...

In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...

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...

St. Mary's Healthcare has an obligation to protect patients from harm and preventing adverse effe...

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 ...

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...