Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

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

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...

Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...

Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended ...

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

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

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

Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

As health care leaders implement diverse improvement projects, from reducing hospital-acquired in...

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

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

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

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...

In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...

At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago this fall, Kathi Patterson,...

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...

The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...

The Problem Communication is listed as the leading factor in the root causes of sentinel events ...

The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...