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...