Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This weekend kicks off a not-to-be-missed event for hospital and health system leaders: the AHA’s...

There is a critical need to elevate the discussion around workforce planning and development to e...

Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...

Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

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

The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....

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

Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...

Teams of individuals who communicate effectively dramatically reduce the consequences of human er...

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

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

Dr. P. Phillips Hospital, a 237-bed facility in Orlando, Florida, used best practices and peer-to...

Hospital Menonita de Aibonito, a 150-bed facility in Aibonito, Puerto Rico, used best practices a...

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

NCH Healthcare System, a 325-bed facility in Naples, Florida, started its journey to reduce harm ...

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

Presence Saint Joseph Hospital, a 184-bed facility in Elgin, Illinois, examined quality metrics t...

St. Catherine Hospital, a 189-bed facility in East Chicago, Indiana, used best practices and peer...

St. John's Hospital, a 431-bed facility in Springfield, Illinois, used best practices and peer-to...

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

Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

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

Providing world-class quality health care may seem an audacious goal for a small or rural hospita...

The 2014 AHA Chair-elect Jonathan  Perlin, MD, co-authored this paper and companion financial mod...

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

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

The University of Michigan Health System used lean management and the plan-do-check-act cycle to ...

According to the Pew research center,  74 percent of all adults in the United States use the Inte...

The University of Connecticut's community-based education program collaborated with community par...

In 2012 the AHA Committee on Research focused on actively engaging health care users to improve o...

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

Many physicians are becoming employees of hospitals, medical groups or affiliate organizations. F...

A just culture. A culture of transparency. A patient-first culture. Culture transformation at Uni...

Purpose: To explore surgeons' perceptions of the factors that influence their intraoperative deci...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

San Mateo Medical Center San Mateo, CA307 Beds The Problem San Mateo Medical Center has collecte...

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

Transitions across care settings introduce risk for patient harm, and medication errors are an im...

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

According to the survey, few nurses and physicians reported routinely submitting online reports, ...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

The inaugural report of the AHA Committee on Performance Improvement details “Hospitals and Care ...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

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

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

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