Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Homelessness is a hidden but real issue in Chittenden County, VT. University of Vermont Medical C...

Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...

Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

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

The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...

The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...

In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...

For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...

Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...

The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...

Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...

The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...

“Every staff member counts” and “every patient counts.” With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in...

The AHA's Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative have relea...

The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Base...

Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...

As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...

The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...

Every day, hospitals are successfully meeting challenges and providing quality care in their comm...

Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

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

The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...

U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...

Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...

Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

Population health is receiving increased attention for its role in improving health care, specifi...

Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...