Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Community health initiatives that start with small successes can lead to bigger changes. St. Cath...

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

A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavior...

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

An intervention to prevent childhood obesity has blossomed into a communitywide effort led by a l...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...

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...

Diversity is becoming a key word in health care. Hospitals and health care systems are focusing o...

The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

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

Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...

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

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

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

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

Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...

Norwegian American Hospital, Chicago, improved both influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates ...

Engaging patients and families in health care can help hospitals achieve the Triple Aim: better c...

Care for people with multiple chronic health conditions is often fragmented, resulting in increas...

Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...

During 2011, the hospital joined the IHA Project Re-Engineering Discharge (RED) collaborative to ...

Whether cheering for soccer, tennis, baseball, softball or another sport, fans no doubt have witn...

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

Every October pink appears on everything from ribbons to football helmets and even illuminates th...

Teamwork between infection control and environmental services professionals at Hunterdon Medical ...

October 6 – 12 is Mental Health Awareness Week. According to estimates, in the United States each...

Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...

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

Only a small percentage of patients develop a health care-associated infection after surgery, and...

Here’s a disheartening statistic from the National Cancer Institute: in the United States, white ...

Here's a disheartening statistic from the National Cancer Institute: in the United States, white ...

June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...

In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...

Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...

According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

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

Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...

From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...

Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

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

Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

Georgia Health Sciences Health Augusta, GA632 Beds Georgia Health Sciences Health System consist...

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

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

Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

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

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

Engaging and training diabetes patients is helping to change and save lives. Here's how: Rowan Re...

Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

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

Part of the Alliance collaborative since 1994, Billings Clinic had been serving its community wit...

The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

For 18 years, Community House Calls, a UW Medicine program of Harborview Medical Center in Seattl...

Walk into an ER for treatment and walk out with a medical home. Carilion Franklin Memorial Hospit...

Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

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

Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...

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 ...

Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...

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

In response to an increase in fall-related injuries in its skilled nursing facility, Champlain Va...

With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...

Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...

A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...

Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

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

As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...

Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...

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...

Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...

Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

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 ...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...