Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Providence St. Patrick Hospital in Missoula, Montana, is working with community stakeholders, inc...

State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...

Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...

Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 79 bed, community hospital serving the residents of eas...

Citrus Valley Health Partners (CVHP) is a nonprofit comprehensive health care system based in Los...

Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

Meritus Health’s replacement hospital, Meritus Medical Center, opened five years ago in Washingto...

Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...

One patient safety tool can be used in all care and service areas, improving safety and quality f...

By adopting a supplier diversity program, hospitals and health care systems can support minority-...

This HPOE webinar takes an in-depth look into how the Massachusetts Hospital Association develope...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

The new HPOE  guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...

Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier ...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to trans...

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...

Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...

The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

Mercy Medical Center committed to delivering the highest quality care with the greatest efficienc...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...

Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...

TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

Telemedicine, successfully used in many areas of medicine, has yet to be evaluated during the reh...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...

Through this initiative, Highland Healthcare Associates IPA seeks to improve the physician's expe...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...

As part of an effort to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognized ...

Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

The Care Tracker program at Signature Healthcare collates data from multiple sources, including b...

Many patients who find themselves in a situation where they are experiencing worsening symptoms o...

Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...