Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The Chairman’s File columns provide just a glimpse of the excellent work that our nation’s hospit...

In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has help...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

Overcoming language barriers with patients improves communication, a critical element of safety a...

In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health ...

Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...

This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...

Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...

Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

Patient safety is the number one priority at this facility. After discussing medication errors at...

Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...

A new HPOE Guide “Increasing Supplier Diversity in Health Care” provides action steps and case st...

The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...

An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...

The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...

The NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System implemented multidisciplinary ICU mobilization teams t...

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...

What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Que...

Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...

A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...

Diversity and inclusion are key strategic goals at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in cen...

Diversity is becoming a key word in health care. Hospitals and health care systems are focusing o...

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

Their journey to eliminate falls with injury started last year, working towards a safety culture ...

During the 2013-14 influenza season, an emergency preparedness mass influenza vaccination drill w...

Patients are often poorly prepared to manage acute and chronic conditions following their dischar...

The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...

GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries This case study is part of the Illinois Hospital Associ...

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...

Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...

GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...

Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...

Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...

Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...

Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

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

Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

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

This toolkit has tips on  Selecting Patients and Families to Serve as Advisors Preparation fo...

This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

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

The ER blood culture contamination rate remained above the national target even after implementin...

In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...

Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

The Institute for Diversity in Health Management, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, works close...

Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...

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

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...

Patient engagement is paramount to reducing readmissions and improving quality of life. That’s wh...

In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...

Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...

Sylvia Getman, president and CEO of the Aroostook Medical Center and senior vice president of Eas...

United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

Engaging Leadership and Governance in Quality and Patient Safety Initiatives Ensuring safe, high...

“Mobility is medicine,” say clinicians and volunteers working together to improve patient care at...

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

Building successful partnerships with patients and families may be a key strategy in a hospital’s...

The hospital recognized an urgent need to improve the current rate of colorectal cancer screening...

Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...

This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...

The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

 Hospital leaders struggle to provide effective care coordination to vulnerable populations. In 2...

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

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

The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

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

Hospitals and care systems are uniquely positioned to play an integral role preventing violence i...

The transformation of health care is occurring at a rapid pace causing an increase in the need to...

With the implementation of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, decisions made at the state level pla...

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...

The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...

Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, used best practice...

Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...

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

Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

Lexington Regional Health Center, a 25-bed facility in Lexington, Nebraska, used best practices a...

Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

Midstate Medical Center, a 134-bed facility in Meriden, Connecticut, committed to reducing harm a...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...

St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...