Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

A central goal of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is to significantly reduce the n...

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

Now, more than ever, hospitals and health system CEOs cannot sit on their hands as new care deliv...

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

In an era of team-based care, nurses are increasingly taking on new leadership roles. Beatrice Ka...

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

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

Hospital trustees considering a merger or other affiliation should ask themselves if they are tre...

Many hospitals feel they have adequately addressed the issue of bloodstream infection prevention ...

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

This fact sheet summarizes the finding from the 2012 Most Wired survey results. The Most Wired s...

PLF hosted a session on achieving team-based health care delivery. David Nash, MD, founding dean ...

This is a collection of resources around computerized physician order entry to assist in implemen...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

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...

The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

With nearly half of all emergency departments operating at or above capacity and the majority of ...

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...

Multidisciplinary rounding (MDR) is a model of care in which multiple members of the care deliver...

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...

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

Strong Memorial Hospital adopted barcode medication administration technology to reduce the incid...

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...

Rochester General Hospital formed a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement actions that ...

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

In 2008, a project was underway to renovate Southampton Hospital's emergency department (upgradin...

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

In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...

San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

A strategy to use a single, integrated EMR has helped make Elliot Health System, based in Manches...

This study found that pharmacist-led medication reconciliation in primary care settings identifie...

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