Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This joint HPOE and Disparities Solutions Center at Massachusetts General Hospital webinar discus...

Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

Operational and physician leaders identified an opportunity to decrease the use of off-site telem...

The CK-MB Test is a traditional blood test of a cardiac marker used to assist in the diagnosis of...

The organization used both discrete event and live simulation methodologies to ensure the smooth ...

Boarding patients in the emergency department (ED) is detrimental to patient care, and evidence s...

A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is ac...

Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center established the Quality Excellence Council at the beg...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

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

Protecting workers from exposure to all types of respiratory hazards is an important issue for ho...

This toolkit from OSHA is availalbe to the public and contains references, educational resources ...

Recognizing the need to integrate physicians and other providers into its quality improvement pro...

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

In conjunction with Health Services Research, this webinar showcases health IT developments in th...

Cybersecurity vulnerabilities and intrusions pose risks for every hospital and its reputation. Wh...

With the rise in higher-deductible health plans and coinsurance, Americans are paying an increasi...

The patient experience as measured by patient satisfaction scores is an organizational goal. In t...

Hospitals pursuing environmental sustainability are not only contributing to healthier communitie...

Hospitals and health care systems can support their missions and also many additional benefits by...

This guide explains why hospital leaders should explore sustainability strategies for their organ...

This podcast series explores a variety of different topics around patient safety and performance ...

The health care industry is shifting from volume- to value-based payment and care delivery models...

A special issue of Health Services Research on “Health Information Technology” is now available. ...

St. Joseph Regional Health Center went on a Lean journey to not only save money, but improve the ...

This guide is a synopsis of a conversation held at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Mate...

Lean transformation means improved patient care, employee satisfaction and reduced costs as MSHA ...

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

St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

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

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

This annual survey of employers provides a detailed look at trends in employer-sponsored health c...

Health care is experiencing dramatic change as the nation's delivery system transitions to a valu...

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

Northeastern Vermont Regional Hospital and Northern Counties Health Care, Inc.,  have had a long-...

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

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

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

Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

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

This webinar provided an understanding of how scientific operations management and IHO Variabilit...

Barriers and Strategies for Overcoming Them To identify the barriers to implementation and the s...

Joint ventures between investor-owned and nonprofit health care organizations are not new; in fac...

This article explores eight of the most challenging and interesting issues that hospital leaders ...

"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...

Health plans and Medicare are using cost profiles to identify which physicians account for more h...

When patients are given decision aids, such as educational booklets, DVDs, or interactive tools, ...

Beginning in 2014, the reporting of clinical quality measures will change for all providers. Elec...

Northwestern Memorial Hospital developed a comprehensive toolkit focused on the prevalence and im...

The Affordable Care Act enacts a new payment system for private health plans available to Medicar...

Background In October 2008, CMS discontinued additional payments for certain hospital-acquired c...

Today's hospital leaders are in need of products and services to help them meet growing efficienc...

An Alliance for Health Reform toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

This journal article sought to determine the effects of EHRs on ambulatory quality in a community...

Background: Little information exists about what primary care physicians and patients experience ...

Background: Assessment of patient safety culture has recently expanded in inpatient settings, but...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit, produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundat...

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

The IHI Improvement Capability Self‐Assessment Tool is designed to assist organizations in asse...

On April 29, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services  released a final regulation for the ne...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

An Alliance for Health Reform Toolkit produced with support from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundati...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

A strong collaboration among senior leadership, governance and the medical staff at Meriter Hospi...

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

This study advocates for a highly structured electronic health record with real-time alerts and d...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Excess days were identified as an area for improvement due to the disparity between hospitals wit...

Customer satisfaction performance is a hospital strategic goal. Marianjoy's inpatient satisfactio...

An annual list of the top 100 hospitals in the United States.

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

An Evidence-informed Case Rate is a budget for a comprehensive episode of medical care within a d...

As health care moves to a value-based business model, health care payments will likely be reduced...

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

For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...

As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

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

Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...

St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...

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

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

To perform the study, Health System Change researchers conducted 114 interviews in 2010 with part...

Frequently Asked Questions regarding implementation of the market reform provisions of the Affor...

Hospital IT departments are facing what one executive calls a "tsunami of activities, expectation...

While any restructuring of the payment system will create incentives that alter providers' behavi...

Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

Ascension Health has some lofty goals: cut serious safety events by 40 percent by 2014. This come...

Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...

This P2P Series presents case studies of hospitals improving their environments to better support...

The focus of this edition of the Economic Outlook is the physician preference market. The content...

While many hospital and health systems have already implemented evidence-based medicine and proce...

This report summarizes the results of that survey, which indicated that overall influenza vaccina...

This guide was created to share best practices and key lessons from innovative organizations on a...

Given economic and industry trends related to the worldwide financial markets, the nation's econo...

The article discusses how the Beacon community program has leveraged health information technolog...

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