Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Quality and safety are “top of the agenda” at urban and rural hospitals across the country. At Ho...

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

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

It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...

A “simple” complex plan is reducing readmissions at Wythe County Community Hospital, a 100-bed fa...

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

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

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...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

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

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

Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...

Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...

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

Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...

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