Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...

Results from an Association for Community Health Improvement and American Hospital Association Su...

A “simple” complex plan is reducing readmissions at Wythe County Community Hospital, a 100-bed fa...

Reducing health care disparities is a growing national priority and state hospital associations a...

This article discusses how using health adjusted life expectacy could bridge the gap between clin...

Healthy Communities of Clinton County Coalition Two teams of community members--a coalition of h...

Fletcher Allen Health Care's  Community Benefit CommitteeBurlington, VT About the Initiative:In ...

This report highlights nearly 80 evidence-based disease and injury prevention programs. These pro...

After a decade of war and an unprecedented number of combat deployments, our service members, vet...

Goal-Save lives, reduce suffering and lower costs related to complications of surgery. Developed...

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

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

Wheaton Franciscan Healthcare (Glendale, Wis.) 11 hospitals, 70 clinic sites, three long-term ...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

This guide includes two sections that address collection and use of patient race, ethnicity and l...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

This guide describes a three-step action plan from the On the CUSP: Stop CAUTI project that helps...

Many of the nation's hospitals and health systems have made progress laying the building blocks f...

Doctors Hospital of Manteca/Tenet HealthcareManteca, CABeds: 73 The ProblemRealizing high-alert ...

The nation’s health care system is undergoing dramatic change as the country shifts to a value-ba...

How do you successfully integrate behavioral health and primary care? A recent HPOE webinar highl...

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

New Ulm Medical CenterNew Ulm, MN45 Beds The Problem New Ulm Medical Center, a critical access h...

Wrangell Medical CenterWrangell, AK22 Beds The Problem Wrangell Medical Center is located in Wra...

Cheyenne Regional Medical CenterCheyenne, WY222 Beds The Problem Cheyenne Regional Medical Cente...

This report indentifies and explains guiding principles to inform the implementation ofCommunity ...

Providing the very best care—the goal of all hospitals and care givers—must include an understand...

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

Davis Health System is a health care network that includes 90-bed Davis Memorial Hospital, 12-bed...

ProMedica’s (NW Ohio and SE Michigan) mission is to improve the health and well-being of the peop...

Providing culturally competent care to patients requires a focus on more than just race, ethnicit...

There were between 462,000 and 636,000 CLABSIs in nonneonatal critical care patients in the Unite...

The National Consensus Project for Quality Palliative Care Clinical Practice Guidelines for Quali...

Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

Data suggests that the hospital has a three year (2006-2009) CHF readmission average of 24.2 perc...

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

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...

Emergency department overcrowding has created patient throughput challenges with 2012 volume alre...

Preoperative/procedure testing for surgical, cardiac catheterization and scheduled C-section pati...

Early and safe mobility of critically ill patients in a cardiovascular surgical intensive care un...

The University of Maryland College Park, School of Public Health and its Center for Health Litera...

To help those with reading and language challenges, UVA Health System staff developed a curriculu...

The University of Alabama at Birmingham Geriatric Education Center  provides geriatric education ...

 Stanford Geriatric Education Center's geriatric training programs for health professionals are o...

L.A. Care Health Plans developed an innovative video designed to inform deaf and hard-of-hearing ...

Since 2011, a series of narrated video slideshow presentations has been under development at  Har...

The Cancer Legal Resource Center, joint program of the Disability Rights Legal Center and Loyola ...

Kaiser Permanente, as an integrated health care delivery system, has made significant progress to...

n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...

African American older adults are at greater risk of depression due to the higher incidence of ch...

Today health disparities remain a constant challenge for immigrants, refugees and displaced popul...

There is often a lack of coordination among the various health and social systems that provide in...

Neighborhood and environment are important determinants of health in addition to individual chara...

Approximately 24 million people--8.5 percent of the U.S. population--are defined as having Limite...

The need for cultural competence among physician providers is widely recognized by accrediting bo...

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

The hospital joined the On the CUSP: Stop BSI  collaborative offered by IHA. The focus was on CLA...

In October 2010, Memorial Medical Center implemented an intervention “bundle” designed to reduce ...

The Red Box strategy was created to help reduce cost and health care worker time associated with ...

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

To reduce the time to first dose of antibiotics to directly admitted pediatric oncology patients ...

After acknowledging that medication errors were on the rise, the facility implemented computerize...

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

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

The critical care unit identified VAP as an area for improvement, with three VAPs from May-July 2...

The PICC team was created in March 2010 after the facility had documented an increase in PICC-ass...

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

In late January 2012, pharmacists began reviewing potential pneumonia patients using a screening ...

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

Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

An opportunity was identified to improve the care of the ventilated patient through education and...

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...

The 2012 AHA Committee on Performance Improvement focused on advanced illness management. Well-de...

What is it? The RXAssistance Patient Assistance Program initiative began in 2005 as a collaborati...

St. John?s Institute for Cognitive Health and the University of Utah Center for Alzheimer?s Care,...

In 2007, Cheyenne Regional lent its name, planning/advocacy staff, and financial resources to par...

Southcentral FoundationAnchorage, AK150 beds A nonprofit health care organization owned by the A...

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

Saint Elizabeth’s Medical CenterWabasha, MN25 Beds Saint Elizabeth’s Medical Center, part of Min...

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...

Informed Medical Decisions FoundationBoston, MAThe Informed Medical Decisions Foundation, founded...

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

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