Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Like many hospitals, SBH Health System uses the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. ...

This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for ...

The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...

The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...

Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...

GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries This case study is part of the Illinois Hospital Associ...

GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries

Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...

The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...

The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...

This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...

The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan  Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...

Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...

The goal was to eliminate all variances in the clinical process measures to ensure that patients ...

This study of Spanish-speaking rural Latinos with diabetes finds that Spanish fluency is independ...

Although, increasing diversity in the health care workforce and training health care providers to...

Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...