Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

One out of five Americans, or over 40 million people, struggle with behavioral health each day. I...

Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...

More and more hospitals and health systems are leading community collaborations to create positiv...

The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...

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

Working with community organizations, including competitors, Palmetto Health is improving the hea...

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

Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

The Problem--Emergency departments were at capacity or beyond it, extending wait times. This resu...

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

University Hospitals, Cleveland, is advancing multiple care equity initiatives. The over 2,000-be...

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

With four hospitals and more than 120 employed medical providers, St. Charles Health System is a ...

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

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

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

The Backyard Initiative at Allina Health, based in Minnesota, is truly taking care beyond hospita...

Infants born to mothers electively at a gestational age of 37-39 weeks are more likely to develop...

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

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

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

Health care professionals at Henry Ford Health System know how to connect with teenagers. About 1...

Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

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

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

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

The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...

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

Continuum Health Partners'  pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...

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...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

The answer is: attracting, retaining and developing the best workforce. The question: What is one...

Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...

Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...

When an employee found directions in her hospital?s emergency department?with directions to other...

Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...

An AHA research synthesis report presents an overview of bundled payment, including evidence of i...

The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...

The Problem According to a study published online by Health Affairs on January 15, 2008, the med...

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

The Problem Nurses have always stuggled with balancing time between their workloads. Employee sa...

The Problem The emergency department corrective action team began May 2, 2007 with the mission s...

The Problem In 2007, the Keystone Center for Patient Safety and Quality partnered with the Michi...

The Problem The infection rate in the NICU at Charleston Area Medical Center was 18 percent in 2...

The Lourdes Center for Public Health works collaboratively with academic and community partners t...