Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Never underestimate the power of data. Hannibal (Mo.) Regional Hospital focused on collecting and...

Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...

This report discusses the importance of health in all policies, an approach to improving health b...

Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...

St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

This annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health c...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

This articles explores how HealthPartners decided to target nonclinical determinants of populatio...

New Ulm Medical CenterNew Ulm, MN45 Beds The Problem New Ulm Medical Center, a critical access h...

Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...

In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

Concord (N.H.) Hospital • 230-bed regional medical center • 17,194 admissions • 295 medical staff...

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

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

This webinar provided an understanding of how scientific operations management and IHO Variabilit...

The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...

Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...

Saint Elizabeth’s Medical CenterWabasha, MN25 Beds Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center, part of Min...

Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...