Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

March 12–18 is Patient Safety Awareness Week. HPOE.org offers guides, tools, case studies...

U.S. health care leaders are continually working to improve care processes while advancing a medi...

Cortland Regional Medical Center’s Transitional Care Program is working to reduce 30-day readmiss...

Quality and safety are “top of the agenda” at urban and rural hospitals across the country. At Ho...

The goal of this project was to standardize protocols for controlling patient pain following tota...

The 2012 New England Compounding Center tragedy and ongoing drug shortages have caused a dramatic...

Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...

Patient falls during hospitalization can lead to increased inpatient care costs, decreased patien...

The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...

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...

Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...

By using evidence-based medicine and hardwiring concurrent review, HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Hig...

Every aspect of a patient’s experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused reso...

The Lung Partners Primary Respiratory Care at the Crouse Hospital is managing the needs of patien...

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...

Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...

One patient safety tool can be used in all care and service areas, improving safety and quality f...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...

In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

This AHRQ video vignette  illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention....

The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...

Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...

This infographic provides a summary of the HPOE guide “Partnering to Improve Quality and Safety: ...

Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

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

In 2009, a multi-pronged approach involving all stakeholders was launched aimed at early identifi...

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

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...

Variation and delays in the early mobilization of patients in the ICU can result in an increased ...

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

The goal was to decrease the number of patients negatively affected by experiencing a post-operat...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...

UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...

Yuma Regional Medical Center, a 406-bed facility in Yuma, Arizona, used best practices and peer-t...

Identifying solutions to reduce hospital-acquired conditions. Working to spread this knowledge to...

It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...

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

The National Patient Safety Foundation leads Patient Safety Awareness Week in early March to prom...

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 ...

The Collaborative on Reducing Hospital Readmissions GoalUnderstand readmission causes and adopt ...

The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...

The aviation industry has successfully used checklists to ensure safe air travel for passengers a...

There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...

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

The hospital was experiencing higher costs and lower quality care than its competitors based on d...

To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

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

In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...

Ryhov HospitalJönköping, Sweden Ryhov Hospital is a county hospital in Jönköping, Sweden, with a...

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

43,750: That’s the number of fall injuries the CMS Partnership for Patients campaign estimates wo...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

The following information is a guide of infection prevention recommendations for outpatient (ambu...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

Marking its 60th anniversary last year, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, can count many accompli...

Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

This project utilized a failure mode effects analysis methodology to examine why critical care un...

A quality improvement project using Lean Six Sigma DMAIC method in a 500-bed tertiary medical cen...

At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

Obstructive sleep apnea is an often unrecognized contributing cause for respiratory failure in ho...

The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...

This list was created by the AAAAI executive committee. The goal is to identify items: common in ...

The American College of Cardiology asked its standing clinical councils to recommend between thre...

The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.  The award...

The patient safety portal includes links to valuable tools and resources.

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...

Rome Memorial Hospital began this project as a prelude to developing a progressive mobility progr...

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

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

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

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

Although electronic reporting systems for near misses and adverse events have been implemented na...

In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...

This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...

In 2006, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation declared a bold vision for patient safety...

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

In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

This project addresses the needs of patients at high risk for C. difficile on a complex medical u...