Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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

A “Germ Crusher” challenge at Children’s Hospital Colorado brought together leadership, staff, pa...

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...

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

A technique used in aviation is being applied to health care once again. To detect early malfunct...

March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago, Nancy Donaldson, R.N., dir...