Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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 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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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

The country’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improveme...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...

Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...

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

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...

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

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

Quality improvement and transparency go hand in hand, David Ballard, M.D., senior vice president ...

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

Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...

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

The Problem Wait times in the hospital's inpatient rehabilitation center were unacceptable; some ...

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

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