Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

This toolkit, released by the AHA, provides guidance and information to hospitals and health syst...

As a new generation of payment and delivery system reform emerges, much focus has been on a subse...

A complete list of every HPOE/HRET guide created since 2010. This list features nearly 80 guides ...

Adirondack Health is working with multiple sectors of the community, such as the Franklin County ...

Homelessness is a hidden but real issue in Chittenden County, VT. University of Vermont Medical C...

Analyzing contributing factors and implementing targeted, sustainable solutions have helped hospi...

While much work has been done in the hospital setting, patient falls continue to be a problem. As...

A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavior...

Since September 2015, the AHA/HRET HEN 2.0 hospitals have been working to reduce hospital-acquire...

Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...

At a 350 bed community teaching hospital, potentially preventive readmissions data from the Illin...

This project addresses the health care system's strategic initiative to ensure interdisciplinary ...

The hospital identified an opportunity to improve its discharge planning process to allow more ti...

Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

In response to high readmission rates coming from the health system’s skilled nursing facility (S...

The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

The problem faced by the health system was the lack of a coordinated approach for the review and ...

Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...

The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...

Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...

The Reducing Readmissions: Making Data Real project decreased acute rehospitalization rates by al...

Limited provider appointment availability in the clinic was causing delays for patients seeking c...

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

Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...

Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...

The goal of this project was to reduce the incidence of contrast-induced neuropathy (CIN) as a re...

The neurosurgery service at this Level I trauma center had experienced high rates of surgical sit...

The health system did not have an adequate process for notifying staff when a patient was on cont...

In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

The project focused on managing sepsis in the emergency department and in admitted patients, with...

The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...

High rates of hospital readmissions in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD)...

For several years, the hospital has been focused on reducing 30-day readmissions. After learning ...

Overutilizing blood transfusions adds significant costs and can increase patient length of stay a...

This project involves raising awareness and expanding the palliative care program at HSHS St. Joh...

Readmissions are a burden for patients, families and health care providers. HSHS St. Joseph's Hos...

Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

The goal of this quality improvement project was to reduce the length of hospitalization, to impr...

This academic medical center developed and implemented a program to improve outcomes and reduce r...

“Every staff member counts” and “every patient counts.” With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in...

The Lung Partners Primary Respiratory Care at the Crouse Hospital is managing the needs of patien...

The AHA's Physician Leadership Forum and Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence initiative have relea...

A health system in rural Minnesota has helped develop an innovative model to prevent prescription...

Effective and sustainable hospital-community partnerships are critical to building a Culture of H...

The Coachella Valley is a region in Southern California with an incredibly high rate of HIV. Base...

An integrated health system headquartered in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, Avera Health serves patie...

Based in La Crosse, Wisconsin, Gundersen Health System is an integrated tertiary referral center ...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

The new HPOE  guide “Triple Aim Strategies to Improve Behavioral Health Care” describes strategie...

Throughout the country, primary care is faced with ongoing waves of healthcare reform (e.g. Accou...

For patients, the transition between acute and post-acute care is rife with risk. Even with moder...

Mercy Medical Center committed to delivering the highest quality care with the greatest efficienc...

As part of the efforts to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognize...

Telemedicine, successfully used in many areas of medicine, has yet to be evaluated during the reh...

Massachusetts General Hospital and Massachusetts General Hospital Physician’s Organization implem...

As part of an effort to ensure that all primary care practices across the network are recognized ...

Many patients who find themselves in a situation where they are experiencing worsening symptoms o...

Injectable extended-release formulation of naltrexone marketed as Vivitrol is a recent significan...

For the past 30 years, the Healthcare for the Homeless Program has addressed the health needs of ...

The Integrated Care Management Program is a care manager collaborative created to ensure a smooth...

At Boston Medical Center, a multidisciplinary team developed a strategy to reduce pulmonary compl...

The Hospital Group focused on reducing the readmission rate on the rehabilitation service unit (R...

MOU—Mobile Observation Unit—provides home-based urgent care for patients experiencing at-risk med...

Approximately 28 percent of the hospital's patients with Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) are readm...

Every day, hospitals are successfully meeting challenges and providing quality care in their comm...

Focusing on value-based payment structures has helped Mount Auburn Hospital design care delivery ...

Hospitals and health care systems are striving to achieve the Triple Aim—improving the patient ex...

To address disparities in health care outcomes, Main Line Health is proactively addressing socioe...

The Health Research & Educational Trust (HRET) developed this compendium to link patient and fami...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

Overcoming language barriers with patients improves communication, a critical element of safety a...

Cultural competency is critical to reducing health care disparities and improving access to high-...

This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...

In July of 2009, Olean General Hospital embarked on a journey to improve outcomes for cardiac pat...

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...

Virtual Health Village is a health information exchange for sharing secure, up-to-date student he...

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...

Antibiotic stewardship was implemented in 2011 and focuses on five "D's": Drug, De-escalation of ...

Antimicrobial Stewardship Programs direct judicious antimicrobial use to optimize patient outcome...

The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...

The pediatric team at this hospital recognized the need to improve processes surrounding care of ...

The hospital started working on Project Re-engineered Discharge (Project RED) in 2011. A patient ...

Reduction in the use of fluoroquinolones is an important intervention for antimicrobial stewardsh...

Medical center evidence pointed to a delay in surgery beyond 48 hours for hip fracture patients a...

The Wisconsin Quality of Life Index is a multidimensional model for measuring patients’ quality o...

A performance improvement project was initiated to reduce the number of elective inductions and c...

The project was to develop an infrastructure for a falls prevention program based on nursing fall...

In the 2010 reporting period (July 2009-June 2010), the medical center’s incidence of early elect...

...and therefore decrease the hospital’s financial risk as part of health care reform, increase c...

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...