Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

March 12-18, 2017, is Patient Safety Awareness Week, led by the National Patient Safety Foundatio...

March 12–18 is Patient Safety Awareness Week. HPOE.org offers guides, tools, case studies...

U.S. health care leaders are continually working to improve care processes while advancing a medi...

The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

As identified in its 2014 Culture of Safety survey, the hospital’s overall mean score for the sta...

A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...

A “Germ Crusher” challenge at Children’s Hospital Colorado brought together leadership, staff, pa...

Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...

Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 79 bed, community hospital serving the residents of eas...

Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

One patient safety tool can be used in all care and service areas, improving safety and quality f...

Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...

The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

The only acceptable number of avoidable patient harms is zero. At Ponca City (Okla.) Medical Cent...

Lexington Regional Health Center, a 25-bed facility in Lexington, Nebraska, used best practices a...

Los Alamitos Medical Center, a 167-bed facility in Los Alamitos, California, used best practices ...

Ponca City Medical Center, a 140-bed facility in Ponca City, Oklahoma, used HEN best practices an...

Sanford Mayville Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hospital in Mayville, North Dakota, use...

UConn John Dempsey Hospital, a 174-bed facility in Farmington, Connecticut, used best practices a...

Identifying solutions to reduce hospital-acquired conditions. Working to spread this knowledge to...

Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...

Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...

Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...

Three patient navigators are used to advocate on behalf of women with abnormal breast findings on...

There is a need for greater understanding of the factors that lead to improved process quality an...

The National Patient Safety Foundation leads Patient Safety Awareness Week in early March to prom...

The United States Department of Labor Occupational Safety & Health Administration office released...

Goal-Reduce and prevent medical errors by adopting best practices and procedures. The Patient Sa...

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

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

Board members have a critical role to play in setting the tone for meaningful quality improvement...

The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...

This report from the Department of Health and Human Services describes a plan to bolster implemen...

The aviation industry has successfully used checklists to ensure safe air travel for passengers a...

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

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

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

Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...

Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

Electronic Health Records implementation is still highly heterogeneous across health care systems...

HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...

It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

Sandy Hausman reports on the Safety Net Medical Home Initiative, a Commonwealth Fund-supported de...

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

The goal of this guide is to help hospital leaders better understand how to address the issue of ...

Marking its 60th anniversary last year, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, can count many accompli...

Safety-net hospitals have lower performance than non-SNHs on metrics of patient-reported experien...

Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...

At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...

The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.  The award...

The patient safety portal includes links to valuable tools and resources.

Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...

Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...

This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...

In 2006, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation declared a bold vision for patient safety...

In November 2009, a group of 12 representatives from various areas within Rochester General Healt...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...

Smart infusion pump technology improves patient safety by providing decision support for nursing ...

Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...

In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

This commentary presents a model developed to explore how health information technology affects c...

This study used written portfolios to capture reflective learning that trainees described about t...

The Minnesota Hospital Association's SAFE SKIN program provides hospital leaders with resources o...

In the fall of 2008, perioperative leaders at Brigham and Women's Hospital, Boston, Mass., conduc...

In the wake of more widespread use of health IT, the Department of Health and Human Services aske...

Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...

The Affordable Care Act includes several provisions designed to encourage greater coordination an...

A controversial safety intervention, rapid response systems (RRS) do not appear to improve clinic...

The new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

The business adage "what gets measured gets managed" applies in health care. Two projects focus o...

Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

Statistics fans, check out these numbers: Staff at Southwestern Vermont Medical Center (SVMC) has...

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...

Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...

Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...

March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago, Nancy Donaldson, R.N., dir...

At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...

For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...