Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Implementing a sustainability program requires significant cultural change and time. A good place...

This annual webinar highlights thhe 2011 AHA-McKesson  Quest forQuality winners and finalists. 20...

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

The eighth biennial survey of ACPE members identifies key trends and factors driving today's phys...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

Restructuring care has reduced readmissions at St. Mary?s Duluth (MN) Clinic Heart and Vascular ...

Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

The SUNY Downsstate Medical Center kidney transplant team identified an increase in the differenc...

A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

Vermont begins building a single-payer health system that will move many state residents into a p...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

The study concludes that more widespread implementation and effective use of e-prescribing in amb...

The Leapfrog Group, a consortium of public and private employers who purchase health care for mor...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

The National Scorecard on U.S. Health System Performance, 2011, updates a series of comprehensive...

The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

This report outlines promising provisions in the Affordable Care Act to achieve improved health a...

In an effort to provide hospitals and health systems nationwide with guidance, Premier developed ...

While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

The answer is: attracting, retaining and developing the best workforce. The question: What is one...

This webpage gives consumers resources and tools to be actively engaged in the quality of the car...

Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...

Reining in health care costs has become a central policy challenge for government and a pressing ...

The U.S. is facing an epidemic of chronic disease at the same time as it's facing tough decisions...

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

Just three years ago, Mississippi Baptist Medical Center faced falling quality indicators, staff ...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...

Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...

This sponsored supplement explores the challenges of investing for lower-cost devices, services a...

A trip to the emergency department too often conjures up images of crowded waiting rooms and exte...

Duplicate medication order errors increased with CPOE and CDS implementation. Many work system fa...

Responding to an explosive growth in patient population, Yale-New Haven Hospital implemented a su...

As America's hospitals and health systems are transforming care, hospitals are facing challenges ...

Throughout the United States, allied hospital associations—state, regional and metropolitan—are w...

Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...

An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...

Through HFMA's Value Project, health care finance leaders are joining their clinical partners to ...

Labor and delivery departments are busy places. At New York-Presbyterian, providing appropriate b...

The report defines the meaning of value in health care, provides an overview of the current state...

Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

Timely access to health care is important for everyone, particularly our nation's veterans. From ...

A focus on wellness to provide better health and better health care is part of the AHA's Health F...

 The purpose of this guide is to provide hospitals with a resource to help reduce inappropriate v...

The journey from good to great for Good Samaritan Hospital of Baltimore started with differentiat...

An NQF endorsement reflects rigorous scientific and evidence-based review, input from patients an...

This paper discusses how new technologies can be applied to improve the health of populations and...

At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago this fall, Kathi Patterson,...

While many health care-acquired infections are transmitted by personal contact due to poor hand h...

Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...

Rarely does an orthopedic physician discuss information workflow with an ER doc, but at Regions H...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

When an employee found directions in her hospital?s emergency department?with directions to other...

Quality improvement and transparency go hand in hand, David Ballard, M.D., senior vice president ...

After reading many success stories about hospitals streamlining and improving patient flow in the...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon.  The average for Lehi...

Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

Seamless, effective patient handoffs are a critical piece of any hospital?s patient safety framew...

This compendium of guides, reports, and toolkits provides a wealth of actionable resources to hel...

The federal health reform legislation includes several demonstration projects that will be held i...

A key ingredient for success under health care reform will be the ability to utilize health infor...

The Problem Administrative burdens and inefficient processes left nurses spending just one-third...

As hospitals and health systems adjust to a new health care environment, quality performance and ...

Moving from a paper world to an electronic one is an "evolution," says Marcy Stoots, RN, director...

Evergreen Hospital Medical Center, Kirkland, Wash., implemented best practices in patient flow bu...

This guide communicates the idea that workforce and human resource practices can positively impac...