Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The work of a Washington D.C. collaborative of hospitals and FQHCs is benefiting the entire commu...

All future performance improvement projects will address health care disparities. That’s the comm...

Hospitals and health systems are intensifying their focus to ensure all patients receive high-qua...

Creating a quieter hospital environment can help the healing process and improve the patient expe...

Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

A collaborative network of hospitals and community organizations is improving behavioral health c...

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

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...

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

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

When hospitals care for victims of violence, it provides a window of opportunity to interrupt the...

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

Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...

Albany Medical Center developed the Child Advocacy Resident Education program that aims to improv...

Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...

At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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 ...

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

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...

Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

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

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed i...

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...

Abington Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from the chie...

Extending services beyond the hospital walls to its most vulnerable patients?that is the goal of ...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

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

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...

The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

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

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

Holy Cross Hospital Health Centers are primary care medical centers that provide affordable servi...