Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The CDC features a new website featuring prevention training, tools and tips for prevention pract...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and CVS Health will colaborate to put lifesaving...

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...

SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...

Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

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...

St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...

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...

Patient engagement is paramount to reducing readmissions and improving quality of life. That’s wh...

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...

At hospitals, health care systems and state, regional and metropolitan hospital associations acro...

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...

In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...

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

Sylvia Getman, president and CEO of the Aroostook Medical Center and senior vice president of Eas...

n 2013, San Luis Valley Regional Medical Center, Conejos County Hospital and five clinics officia...

United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...

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...

Cox Health System's (Springfield, Mo.) medical leadership created a list of medical indications t...

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

Engaging Leadership and Governance in Quality and Patient Safety Initiatives Ensuring safe, high...

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

With the rapid pace of health care transformation hospitals are looking at ways to redefine the "...

“Mobility is medicine,” say clinicians and volunteers working together to improve patient care at...

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...

The hospital recognized an urgent need to improve the current rate of colorectal cancer screening...

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

This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...

The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care  began in 1972.  Home-based primary ca...

The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...

 Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...

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...

A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...

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

The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...

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...

Delivering the right care, at the right time, in the right place. That focus is the strategy for ...

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, ...

The only acceptable number of avoidable patient harms is zero. At Ponca City (Okla.) Medical Cent...

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

The transformation of health care is occurring at a rapid pace causing an increase in the need to...

Building a culture of health means ensuring all people have the opportunity to live productive, h...

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, decisions made at the state level pla...

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

Working toward the Triple Aim of better care, better health and lower cost means achieving the go...

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

Human trafficking is a modern form of slavery. Victims are subjected to force, fraud or coercion ...

AnMed Health is a non-profit health system and the largest employer in Anderson County, South Car...

The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improve...

In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...

The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...

The AHA/HRET HEN project ended in December 2014, but quality improvement work continues at hospit...

Avista Adventist Hospital, a 114-bed facility in Louisville, Colorado, used best practices and pe...

Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, used best practice...

Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...

Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...

Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...

Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

Lexington Regional Health Center, a 25-bed facility in Lexington, Nebraska, used best practices a...

Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

Midstate Medical Center, a 134-bed facility in Meriden, Connecticut, committed to reducing harm a...

NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, a 184-bed facility in Elgin, Illinois, examined quality metrics t...

Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...

St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...

St. John's Hospital, a 431-bed facility in Springfield, Illinois, used best practices and peer-to...

UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...

Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 406-bed facility in Yuma, Arizona, used best practices and peer-t...

Partnering in 2014, the AHA Committee on Research and AHA Committee on Performance Improvement fo...

This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...

The Society for Healthcare Strategy and Market Development recently released the report Bridging ...

By focusing on preventive care and health promotion, hospitals are catalyzing change in their com...

As the U.S. health care system transforms, hospitals are playing a greater role in building a cul...

University Hospitals, Cleveland, is advancing multiple care equity initiatives. The over 2,000-be...

Truven Health Analytics discusses key areas of focus for hospitals and care systems that want to ...

Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, Ill., created a total knee and hip joint replacement center of excel...

What is it? Now in its third year, Camp Med is a three-day, hands-on experience at the hospital t...