Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...

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

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

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

Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...

Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...

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...

Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.  The award...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators from AHRQ, and s...

An interactive map showing quality initiatives by state

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

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