Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 ...

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

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

Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

For expectant mothers at risk for childbirth complications, the OB assist team at Abington (Pa.) ...

At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...

The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...

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

Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...

The Problem Inapproprate inductions of labor, defined as elective iductions less than 39 weeks g...

The Problem Several processes used in the care of patients of Advocate Illinois Masonic Medical ...

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

The Problem With mechanical ventilation being a large part of care for critical patients, teh ne...

The Problem Bronson's patient safety committee appointed a task force to look at medication erro...

The Problem With the national average of hospital-acquired skin breakdown at 4.8 percent, Bronso...

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