Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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

A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...

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

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

Due to exponential expansion of a Lean Six Sigma program, an evolution of the project portfolio m...

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

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

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

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

This toolkit from OSHA is availalbe to the public and contains references, educational resources ...

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

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

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...

With the rise in higher-deductible health plans and coinsurance, Americans are paying an increasi...

The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...

Hospitals pursuing environmental sustainability are not only contributing to healthier communitie...

This guide explains why hospital leaders should explore sustainability strategies for their organ...

The health care industry is shifting from volume- to value-based payment and care delivery models...

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

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 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality prize honors hospitals that have a committed in a systemic man...

Hospitals & Health Networks magazine, the flagship publication of the AHA, has put together a web...

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

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

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

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

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

The medical center’s mission was to reduce the C. difficile rate from 26.7 cases per 10,000 patie...

This webinar provided an understanding of how scientific operations management and IHO Variabilit...

The glycemic collaborative is an ongoing, multidisciplinary initiative developed to improve blood...

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

Medicare beneficiaries with Alzheimer's disease and related disorders were at a higher risk of po...

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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

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...

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...

This certified CME/CE activity addresses professional practice gaps in the optimal care of chroni...

Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

The current understanding of what drives readmission focuses on the quality of the inpatient disc...

Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

Why Is Focusing On Preventable Mortality Important?Hospital leaders work hard every day to provid...

Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...

Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...

The Problem Inefficiencies in the fast track at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital have long b...

The Problem Like many hospitals, Westmoreland struggled with significant ED crowding and patient...

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...

The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...

The Problem St. Francis struggled getting non-emergent patients from the door to an ED bed in a ...

The Problem According to the American Heart Association, heart failure affects about 5.7 million...

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

Reducing rates of rehospitalization has attracted attention from policymakers as a way to improve...