Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

Turnaround time for immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains in the laboratory of a 500 bed tertiary car...

The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...

Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...

Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

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

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...

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

A pressure ulcer team was developed and Plan-Do-Study-Act practice was used to focus on process c...

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

Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

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

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

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

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

As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

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

In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...

NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...

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

Health care executives have to ensure that new care models are implemented effectively and improv...

Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

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

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

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

When the Infection Prevention and Control Department of Medical Center of McKinney in McKinney, T...

The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...

The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...

The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

The Problem According to a study published online by Health Affairs on January 15, 2008, the med...

The Problem MRSA accounts for more than 18,000 deaths annually nationwide, according to the CDC....

The Problem The results of blood tests are crucial to physician decision making. At St. Luke's, ...

The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...

The Problem Carolina Medical Center-Mercy worked on patient throughput in its ED, while developi...