Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

March 12-18, 2017, is Patient Safety Awareness Week, led by the National Patient Safety Foundatio...

A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...

Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

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

Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...

More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...

Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...

Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

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

Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...

Small but mighty describes Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hosp...

Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...

Poor planning. High costs. These issues helped prompt Saint Joseph-London in London, Ky., to impr...

Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

When Poudre Valley Health System, based in Fort Collins, Colo., started using bedside medication ...

When Katherine Herrmann, the clinical quality facilitator at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, w...

Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...