Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This weekend kicks off a not-to-be-missed event for hospital and health system leaders: the AHA’s...

In response to a rapidly transforming health care environment, hospitals and health systems acros...

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

Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...

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 goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...

The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...

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

Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...

In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...

The prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) is a major focus for health care orga...

Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...

When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

Children’s Hospital Colorado launched a fun, hospital-wide hand hygiene challenge called “Germ Cr...

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...

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

Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....

The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

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

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...

Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...

Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, a 184-bed facility in Elgin, Illinois, examined quality metrics t...

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

St. John's Hospital, a 431-bed facility in Springfield, Illinois, used best practices and peer-to...

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

This HPOE webinar, held in conjunction with the Institute for Diversity in Health Management, fea...

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

Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

This updated chartpack offers a snapshot of some common strategies used to improve the quality of...

Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable imp...

Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

This case study explains Barnes-Jewish Hospital's approach to training it  4,100 team members thr...

This case study looks at he Joint Commission's recommendation related to culturally and linguisti...

n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

This primer discusses community benefit laws across the United States, noting differences in fede...

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

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

Assisted living facilities allow residents to "age in place" by adjusting their level of care and...

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

Acute care hospitals have been establishing palliative programs at a rapid pace; the United States n...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

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

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

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

Rob Olson, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bellingham, Wash., sold his solo practice when he ...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

This web seminar provided participants with information about diversity management, cultural comp...

The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...

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

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators from AHRQ, and s...

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 ...

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

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

About 1 in 12 adults (8.2 percent) aged 21 and older discharged from a hospital to the community ...

Representatives from Catholic Health Initiatives in Denver, Advocate Lutheran General Hospital in...

Nearly one-quarter of privately insured colon surgery patients are readmitted to the hospital wit...

This certified CME/CE activity focuses on caring for patients with chronic pain in the hospital ...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

n response to growing interest from the hospital community in better understanding and improving ...

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

Hospitals across the region are seeing more people with different languages, cultural sensitiviti...

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

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

W hat is patient- and family-centered care? Why does it matter? How does it fit with a hospital's...