Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

On the CUSP: Stop BSI and Stop CAUTI aim to eliminate central line associated bloodstream infecti...

The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...

This online education program has been developed by infection control experts from Joint Commissi...

Authored by Kaufman Hall executives, this guide describes the groundwork and prerequisites requir...

This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...

The American Hospital Association's Physician Leadership Forum helps physicians and hospitals adv...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

Compassionate and cost effective is how Memorial Healthcare System, based in Hollywood, Fla., des...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

Objective: Rates of venous thromboembolism as high as 58 percent have been reported after trauma,...

The Quality Transformation Network is a large and growing group of children's hospitals combining...

This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...

The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

Purpose. This study assesses the impact of advance directives on end-of-life costs, drawing on ad...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...

A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

America’s hospitals are committed to protecting the health and well-being of all patients, especi...

Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

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

Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

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

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

The goal of this program was to reduce the number of Foley catheter-associated urinary tract infe...

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

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

Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

A central line-associated blood stream infection rate of 1.5 infections per 1,000 patient days wa...

Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

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...

Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

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 ...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

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...