Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

Because the medical center’s lost charge capture related to IV injection and infusions totaled $8...

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

The goal was to reduce delay in patient care by decreasing patient wait times for a CT exam from ...

This project has decreased cycle time for medication reconciliation at time of admission and for ...

Studies show lipase to be as sensitive as and more specific than amylase in diagnosing pancreatit...

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing an increase in door-to-doctor times due to high pa...

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

A local urology department partnered with the performance improvement department to identify oppo...

Outpatient registration at OSF Center for Health required patients to stand in line for extended ...

This HPOE guide, a collaboration with the American Society for Healthcare Engineering, explores w...

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

The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website highlights quality improvement stories at hundreds...

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

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

Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

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

This blog post is from H&HN, the journal of the American Hospital Association and was written by ...

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

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

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

HPOE and Leavitt Partners worked in collaboration to detail how accountable care organizations (A...

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

A Safe Patient Handling program (SPH) was initiated in 2006. A SPH vendor was chosen based upon e...

The transformation of health care is occurring at a rapid pace causing an increase in the need to...

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

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

Health care organizations are in varying stages of clinical and financial integration as they pur...

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...

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

The health care field leaves a large environmental footprint, but hospitals and health care syste...

Hospitals and health care systems are faced with unprecedented challenges and opportunities as th...

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

The Community Health Systems Development Team at the Georgia Health Policy Center has developed a...

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

Physicians' steady interest in hospital employment — a trend that has accelerated in recent years...

The AMA Principles for Physician Employment are intended to help physicians, those who employ phy...

Authors William F. Jessee, MD and David Rowlee, Ph. D. from Integrated Healthcare Strategies, dis...

Bundled payments are becoming more attractive to the health care industry as providers learn that...

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

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

One of the most vital strategies in the current health care environment is physician-hospital ali...

Are the salaries of employed physicians sustainable? That depends on how health systems and physi...

Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...

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

AHRMM is the premier membership group for health care supply chain and materials management profe...

Established in 1980, ASHRM is a personal membership group of the AHA with nearly 6,000 members re...

SHSMD is the premier organization for 4,000 health care professionals responsible for strategy de...

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

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

Using key metrics, MaineHealth gauges its impact on population health The board's challenge--wha...

There has been a growing interest over the past several years in the concept of payment bundling,...

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

The Association for the Healthcare Environment represents directors, managers, supervisors, suppl...

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

There is widespread agreement that the current fee-for-service approach to paying for health care...

The compendium is a collection of action-oriented resources that can help design and implement st...

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...

A Lean project to address why physicians were not receiving lab results in a timely manner was im...

This Lean project focused on improving processes in central sterile processing. All processes for...

Since 1999, anticoagulant therapy was one of the top three causes of adverse events. A Six Sigma ...

The OSF cardiac service line implemented a STEMI Improvement project to identify obstacles that c...

The quality assurance department developed a system for tracking quality indicators in every depa...

Transitioning to the new coding system is a mammoth undertaking, one that requires not just signi...

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

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

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...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

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

For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...

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...

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

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

Saving lives and promoting community health certainly are commendable undertakings. To fully real...

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

Montefiore Medical CenterBronx, NY1,418 Beds The Problem Montefiore Medical Center is a large, a...

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

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