Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

As a new generation of payment and delivery system reform emerges, much focus has been on a subse...

A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...

Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...

A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavior...

Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...

At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...

The hospital identified an opportunity to improve its discharge planning process to allow more ti...

Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...

The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...

The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...

This academic medical center developed and implemented a program to improve outcomes and reduce r...

“Every staff member counts” and “every patient counts.” With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in...

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

The new HPOE  guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...

As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...

As part of an effort to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognized ...

For the past 30 years, the Healthcare for the Homeless Program has addressed the health needs of ...

The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...

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

This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...

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

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 ...

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

A performance improvement project was initiated to reduce the number of elective inductions and c...

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

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...

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

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

April is National Minority Health Month. In 2011, the AHA and four partners formed Equity of Care...

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

Delivering the right care, at the right time, in the right place. That focus is the strategy for ...

This toolkit is a user-friendly “how-to” guide to help accelerate the elimination of health care ...

U.S. hospitals aree xploring what it means to be a hospital in a rapidly transforming health care...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...

Hospital-based Strategies for Creating a Culture of Health provides background on the Robert Wood...

The foundation of all efforts to identify disparities, improve quality, achieve equity and delive...

Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...

Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...

During 2011, the hospital joined the IHA Project Re-Engineering Discharge (RED) collaborative to ...

Improving patient safety, leading multiple improvement efforts and moving to value-based care: Th...