Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...