Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This paper examines successful approaches to delivering mental health treatment in primary care a...

This decision-maker brief offers programmatic and policy changes that can help practices, especia...

This brief describes how decisionmakers can encourage a model of care that truly reflects the nee...

This online executive dialogue explores CPOE implementation. Expert CIOs and CMIOs share their ex...

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

This guide describes how HCAHPS data should be used in context with other information about organ...

This guide provides techniques, case studies and guiding principles from various fields of expert...

Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

The use of "triggers" or clues to identify adverse events is an effective method for measuring th...

Teamwork benefits seniors, too. A partnership between Wishard Health Services?a large safety net ...

Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

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

Until recently, Stony Brook University Medical Center's approach to core measure data consisted o...

The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...

Continuum Health Partners'  pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...

In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...

Olean General Hospital is one of only a few community hospitals in the nation to offer a center o...

This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...

This project was initiated by David Lyons, Director of Respiratory Therapy at St. Francis Hospita...

St. Mary's Healthcare has an obligation to protect patients from harm and preventing adverse effe...

Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

Falls increased in Thompson Health's inpatient areas in 2009 and 2010, and the number of falls wa...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...

A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...

Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...

The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...

In 2010, Southampton Hospital discovered that its process for checking and maintaining equipment/...

At Mountainside Residential Care Center's resident council, residents requested an improved dinin...

Medication, in addition to other treatment options, is an integral part of the care provided to l...

North Bronx Healthcare Network devised a process to analyze its departmental risk management data...

As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...

The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...

Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...

Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...

Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...

University HospitalsCleveland, OH1,032 Beds The Problem To address the changing demographics of ...

The hospital partnered with the Wyoming Department of Health to work to eliminate health disparit...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

This article assesses the potential impact of P4P on national hospital disparities using a two-me...

Market forces are driving renewed interest in integration that may result in changes in the owner...

Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds  The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...

Wishard Health ServicesIndianapolis, IN293 Beds  The Problem Geriatric Resources for Assessment ...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...

AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY1,418 Beds The Problem Montefiore Medical Center is a large, a...

This article discusses the socioeconomic factors necessary for health in a community. The author ...

This article discusses preliminary findings from the National Congress of American Indians Policy...

This report discusses the necessity of health information technology to effectively and systemati...

Supported by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation's Pioneer Portfolio, OpenNotes is being tested by...

Carolinas HealthCare System, based in Charlotte, N.C., is partnering with 12 YMCA branches "to cr...

The closed-door discussion focused on the best practices of organizations that have won or were f...

The objective of this study was to describe health plan efforts to collect language data from its...

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...