Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...

The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

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

Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

In 1996, as the growth in managed care increased the role for general internists and primary care...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...

An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat...

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...

The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...

A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

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

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

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

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

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

Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...

Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...

A multidisciplinary team was formed to increase the rate of risk assessment and appropriate thera...

As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...

An annual list of the top 100 hospitals in the United States.

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

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

An Evidence-informed Case Rate is a budget for a comprehensive episode of medical care within a d...

An interactive map showing quality initiatives by state

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

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

At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...

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

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

Stern Family Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation tracked hospital readmissions and found ...

Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...

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 ...

For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...

As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

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

The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

Falls increased in Thompson Health's inpatient areas in 2009 and 2010, and the number of falls wa...

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

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...

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...

Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...

Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...

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

Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...

South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...

Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...

St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...

With hand hygiene compliance at 37.3 percent, Syosset Hospital implemented a comprehensive approa...

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...

In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...