Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Like many hospitals, SBH Health System uses the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. ...

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

In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...

The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...

The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...

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

Turnaround time for immunohistochemistry (IHC) stains in the laboratory of a 500 bed tertiary car...

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

Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...

This project has decreased cycle time for medication reconciliation at time of admission and for ...

The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...

Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...

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...

Inappropriate stress ulcer prophylaxis is a serious problem across the health care continuum. Lit...

High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...

The utilization review staff at HSHS St. Elizabeth's Hospital examines medical records for inpati...

A systematic, repeatable approach was developed to monitor pneumonia patients 30 days following d...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's quality award submissions are highlighted on HPOE....

Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...

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

The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...

Surgery case cancellation rates OSF Center for Health were 10.5 percent over six months. This cre...

This academic medical center developed and implemented a program to improve outcomes and reduce r...

“Every staff member counts” and “every patient counts.” With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in...

The Sunday Shoes Program is an innovative solution to help heart failure patients monitor weight ...

Every day, hospitals are successfully meeting challenges and providing quality care in their comm...

Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...

In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...

Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three exampl...

Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...

Patient safety is the number one priority at this facility. After discussing medication errors at...

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

A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...

This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...

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

The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

During the 2013-14 influenza season, an emergency preparedness mass influenza vaccination drill w...

The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

Successful implementation of an evidence-based fall prevention protocol demonstrated a 50 percent...

This project is aimed at reduction of adverse outcomes experienced by patients as a result of CLA...

This project is aimed at reduction of adverse outcomes experienced by patients as a result of CLA...

The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...

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

This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

A performance improvement project was initiated to reduce the number of elective inductions and c...

The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

The decision was made to proceed with efforts to eliminate elective deliveries prior to 39 weeks ...

...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

Noting an upward trend in central line-associated blood stream infections, the hospital joined th...

Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

With the rapid pace of health care transformation hospitals are looking at ways to redefine the "...

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

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

This quality project evaluated the impact of translating evidence based CLABSI practice from the ...

Children with cystic fibrosis have better lung function and survival rates if their body mass ind...

This webinar introduces and explains the ONC-sponsored SAFER guides, which can be found at http:/...

Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...

Presence St. Mary’s Hospital, Kankakee, Ill., improved readmission rates for heart failure patien...

Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...

Hospitals and care systems across the country are engaged in quality improvement efforts to impro...

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and intrusions pose risks for every hospital and its reputation. Wh...

Since 2010, the academic medical center has been supporting a program to reduce 30-day all cause ...

The Missouri Hospital Association issued the Standardized, Plain Language Emergency Codes Impleme...

A “simple” complex plan is reducing readmissions at Wythe County Community Hospital, a 100-bed fa...

Goal-Save lives, reduce suffering and lower costs related to complications of surgery. Developed...

Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Network GoalsReduce patient harm by 40 percent and ...

St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

Many of the nation's hospitals and health systems have made progress laying the building blocks f...

Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

How do you successfully integrate behavioral health and primary care? A recent HPOE webinar highl...

Throughout the past decade, there has been a substantial increase in the national frequency of po...

Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...

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

Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...

Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...

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

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

Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

Early and safe mobility of critically ill patients in a cardiovascular surgical intensive care un...

After identification of an opportunity to reduce CAUTIs, leadership headed an initiative to reduc...

The hospital joined the On the CUSP: Stop BSI  collaborative offered by IHA. The focus was on CLA...

In October 2010, Memorial Medical Center implemented an intervention “bundle” designed to reduce ...

The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...

Harm/hospital-acquired condition reports were sent to each hospital. In reviewing both campuses, ...