Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

BackgroundIllinois Valley Community Hospital is a 49-bed, not-for-profit hospital located in Peru...

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

The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

Hallmark Health System, Inc., is participating in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (C...

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

 HPOE is pleased to highlight case studies from the Illinois Hospital Association’s Institute f...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...