Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Preventing hospital-acquired infections, reducing surgical complications and reducing readmission...

Womansplace Crisis Center is committed to working toward the elimination of violence against wome...

Each year, the AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals and health systems that have...

This article discusses opportunities for health care providers to leverage Affordable Care Act re...

Eliminating hospital-acquired infections, preventing patient falls, reducing preventable readmiss...

Eliminating hospital-acquired infections, preventing patient falls, reducing preventable readmiss...

As health care leaders implement diverse improvement projects, from reducing hospital-acquired in...

Each year, the AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals and health systems that have...

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

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

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

The Collaborative on Reducing Hospital Readmissions GoalUnderstand readmission causes and adopt ...

Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...

Research shows that when patients are engaged in their health care, it can lead to measurable imp...

Newark Department of Child and Family Well-BeingNewark NJ The Problem In 2003, The Newark (N.J.)...

In July 2013, the AHA released another collection of action-oriented resources that can help hosp...

This toolkit provides a framework for creating interventions that promote the Healthy People 2020...

In California, about 16 percent of the adult population, more than 4 million people, have mental ...

This resource gives hospital and health system leaders concrete, practical steps grounded on evid...

This article discusses how six organizations in Oakland, Calif., used a health impact assessment ...

No single organization can effectively address complex community health issues such as access to ...

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

Children diagnosed with intellectual and developmental disabilities and behavior disorders need q...

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

Telepsychiatry is playing a pivotal role in providing timely care to hospitalized mental health p...

Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...

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

The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

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

Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

Collective Impact is the commitment of a group of actors from different sectors to a common agend...

The hospital was experiencing higher costs and lower quality care than its competitors based on d...

The treatment of asthma requires cultural and linguistic sensitivity. Ideal treatment options req...

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

A collaborative effort among Harborview Medical Center, two massage schools, the Southeast Seattl...

This case study describes an evidence-based residency program that applies to an international au...

Beginning in August 2007, the Arizona Department of Health Services' Health Disparities Center or...

In order to deliver the highest quality and most appropriate health care, Georgia Health Sciences...

After several monthly reviews of reported adverse drug events, hypoglycemia ranked highest for th...

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

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

Effective care transitions programs can do more than improve patient care: patients learn to mana...

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

The goal was to improve turnaround times of troponin and EKGs within the cardiac patient populati...

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

Webinars and presentations from the New England Health Impact Assessment Training Series in 2012.

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

This report discusses strategies to help health care leaders prioritize three foundational elemen...