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Communities around the country are experiencing challenges in preventing substance use. For some ...
A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...
Cortland Regional Medical Center’s Transitional Care Program is working to reduce 30-day readmiss...
The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize recognizes leadership and innovation in quality improvem...
In July 2016, the AHA/HRET Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) 2.0 hosted a state hospital associat...
Since September 2015, the American Hospital Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust...
Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...
The hospital identified an opportunity to improve its discharge planning process to allow more ti...
While the implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ venous thromboembolism ...
This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for ...
Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...
Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...
Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...
The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...
A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...
A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...
The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...
The medical center has made significant progress in improving physician-patient communication thr...
By using evidence-based medicine and hardwiring concurrent review, HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Hig...
The blood bank relocated to a new hospital facility while the labor and delivery (L&D) unit remai...
This academic medical center developed and implemented a program to improve outcomes and reduce r...
A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...
A “Germ Crusher” challenge at Children’s Hospital Colorado brought together leadership, staff, pa...
Rates of inpatient medication errors range from 45 to 76 percent, with most errors occurring on-a...
Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...
State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...
Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...
Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...
The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...
The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...
TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...
Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...
In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...
The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...
Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...
The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...
Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...
Teamwork champions on a diverse change team: These were key as The MetroHealth System in Clevelan...
This infographic provides a summary of the HPOE guide “Partnering to Improve Quality and Safety: ...
This New York Times blog was written by a resident in internal medicine at Massachusetts General ...
This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...
Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...
Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...
Within the organization over the last year, a new division of four hospitals was created, with th...
The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...
The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...
National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...
The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...
July 2009-October 2011 baseline data for the blood culture contamination rate in the ED showed it...
The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...
A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...
The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...
To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...
SMH was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative designed to improve quality, effi...
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...
Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...
This facility's coronary artery stents per admission rate was consistently higher than the nation...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...
The only acceptable number of avoidable patient harms is zero. At Ponca City (Okla.) Medical Cent...
Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...
Baxter Regional Medical Center, a 268-bed facility in Mountain Home, Arkansas, used best practice...
Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...
Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...
The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...
Identifying solutions to reduce hospital-acquired conditions. Working to spread this knowledge to...
The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize annually honors hospitals and health systems that contin...
Making incremental changes and collaborating with area hospitals and community organizations have...
Nearly 1,500 U.S. hospitals are working to eliminate patient harm and reduce hospital readmission...
Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...
Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...
A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...
This article found that county characteristics are independently associated with higher hospital ...
Each year, the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement takes an in-depth look at a single topic ...
Each year, the AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals and health systems that have...
Teamwork between infection control and environmental services professionals at Hunterdon Medical ...
Each year, the AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals and health systems that have...
Goal-Save lives, reduce suffering and lower costs related to complications of surgery. Developed...
Goal-Reduce and prevent medical errors by adopting best practices and procedures. The Patient Sa...
Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network GoalsReduce patient harm by 40 percent and ...
Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...
The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality prize honors hospitals that have a committed in a systemic man...
Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the flagship publication of the AHA, has put together a web...
Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the national frequency of po...
An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...
According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...
According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...
In December 2009, the medical center embarked on a little known and practiced procedure in the Un...
HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...
The hospital was experiencing higher costs and lower quality care than its competitors based on d...
A nurse-driven protocol was implemented to increase the staff’s awareness on the appropriate indi...
The hospital joined the On the CUSP: Stop BSI collaborative offered by IHA. The focus was on CLA...
To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...
After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...
The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...
Development of a Norwood Clinic allowed the quality improvement team to create goals to decrease ...
Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...
The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...
Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...
