Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

SBH Health System implemented numerous strategies to reduce the number of Cather-Associated Urina...

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

Since 2012, the Aiming for Zero program at Northwell Hospital is continuously working to reduce C...

The best way to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) is to limit the use ...

According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...

Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...

A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...

Meritus Health’s replacement hospital, Meritus Medical Center, opened five years ago in Washingto...

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

Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...

A multidisciplinary committee found that despite an overall sepsis mortality rate similar to expe...

This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...

Goal-Save lives, reduce suffering and lower costs related to complications of surgery. Developed...

This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...

There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...

After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...

The hospital joined the On the CUSP: Stop BSI  collaborative offered by IHA. The focus was on CLA...

In October 2010, Memorial Medical Center implemented an intervention “bundle” designed to reduce ...

Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, ...

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

The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...

The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

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...

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

The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...

This multi-year NACHRI effort is focused on reducing CLABSI in the pediatric hematology/oncology ...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

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

Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

Roseland Community Hospital joined the Illinois Foundation for Quality Healthcare, the quality im...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

Until recently, Stony Brook University Medical Center's approach to core measure data consisted o...

In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...

In 2005, North Shore University Hospital's president and chief executive officer made a commitmen...

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

Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...

This project addresses the needs of patients at high risk for C. difficile on a complex medical u...

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

Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...

South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...

2011 Guidelines

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

In 2005, the neonatal intensive care unit at Women and Children's Hospital of West Virginia exper...

The Problem Severe sepsis is one of the most significant challenges in critical care. Although S...

At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...

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

The ProblemUrinary tract infections are the most common infections in hospitals. The majority are...

The Problem The Pitt Country Memorial Hospital leadership team decided to reduce surgical compli...

The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...

The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...