Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

Hospitals and health care systems can support their missions and also many additional benefits by...

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

Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

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

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

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...

The Problem In 2007, all 19 regional perinatal programs in New York began looking at the reducti...

The Problem Like many urban safety net hospitals, Hahnemann University Hospital struggled with o...