Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

During 2012, despite economic challenges, hospitals and health care systems throughout the United...

In 2008 Don Berwick, Tom Nolan, and John Whittington first described the triple aim of simultaneo...

In August 2010, the Center for Transforming Healthcare launched its fourth project which aims to ...

The 2012 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality award winners and finalists are highlighted in this webin...

One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

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

Health care professionals whose focus is on patient safety are very familiar with these alarming ...

The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

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

HRET has been awarded a contract by CMS to support their Partnership for Patients campaign. PfP i...

The Florida Hospital Association is proud to recognize the 2012 Celebration of Achievement in Qua...

Annual analysis of the health care of a record number of Americans by the National Committee for ...

AbstractBackground: Handover practices at hospital discharge are relatively under-researched, par...

It is widely recognized that there is more work needed to eliminate preventable harm in the U.S. ...

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

The Evaluation and Research on Antimicrobial Stewardship's Effect on Clostridium difficile (ERASE...

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

Objective: To understand factors leading to all-cause 30-day readmissions in a community hospital...

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

Readmission rates to U.S. hospitals are high, often because of poor care transitions. Serious adv...

This audio program features current news and information from the U.S. Agency for Healthcare Rese...

A loading dose is an initial dose of medication administered to rapidly achieve therapeutic level...

Considering the evolution of measures designed to prevent nosocomial pneumonia, it makes clinical...

As health care facilities continually look to strengthen their falls prevention programs and resp...

Rob Olson, MD, an obstetrician-gynecologist in Bellingham, Wash., sold his solo practice when he ...

Seasonal influenza remains a serious public health concern. According to the CDC, seasonal influe...

Every four years, the Olympic Games recognize athletes on a quest to be the best in their chosen ...

The Standardized Care to Improve Outcomes in Pediatric ESRD (SCOPE) Quality Collaborative helps d...

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

Patients hospitalized for acute myocardial infarction or congestive heart failure are more likely...

University Hospitals Case Medical Center has undergone a decade-long cultural transformation to a...

Small but mighty describes Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hosp...

Quality is the first word that comes to mind when we talk about the American Hospital Association...

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

Drawing from data reported by the Leapfrog Hospital Survey, the Agency for Healthcare Research an...

The Pennsylvania Patient Safety Authority and the Health Care Improvement Foundation (HCIF) partn...

Pennsylvania facilities submitted 879 medication error reports from July 1, 2004, through January...

Infection control data demonstrated an increase in the incidence of primary bacteremia associated...

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

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

Infection Control surveillance identified 49 episodes of CLABSI from July 2008-June 2009, greater...

The Kishwaukee Community Hospital nurses and physicians recognized the opportunity to improve car...

Reduction of hospital-acquired infections is a major focus of the board of directors and senior l...

Best practices from the Surgical Care Improvement Project have been implemented to reduce the inc...

Resurrection Medical Center had a percutaneous coronary intervention within 90 minutes compliance...

Shortcomings in the treatment for patients with severe sepsis and septic shock were observed. An ...

The reduction of HAPU has been a focus for 10 years at OSF Saint Anthony Medical Center. Over tha...

Quarterly surveys revealed elevated hospital-acquired pressure ulcer rates unchanged by previous ...

The aim of this project was to reduce the number of Venous Thromboembolisms acquired during hospi...

A multidisciplinary team was formed to increase the rate of risk assessment and appropriate thera...

As a small community hospital, ventilator-associated pneumonia incidence was low. However, the lo...

Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...

Enriching. That's how AnMed Health views the increasing cultural and linguistic diversity of its ...

The 2011 recipients of the annual John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards.  The award...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

This toolkit is designed to help your hospital understand the Quality Indicators from AHRQ, and s...

An interactive map showing quality initiatives by state

In this study of 1,421 employees, we examined how different presentations of information affect t...

This commentary describes a template to standardize handoff education to drive safety improvement.

Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...

At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...

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

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...

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

Stern Family Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation tracked hospital readmissions and found ...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

Health Quest uses and benefits from a system wide root cause analysis policy to address adverse a...

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

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

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...

The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

Falls increased in Thompson Health's inpatient areas in 2009 and 2010, and the number of falls wa...

In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...

Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...

This project addresses the needs of patients at high risk for C. difficile on a complex medical u...

Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...

South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...

Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...

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

Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...

With hand hygiene compliance at 37.3 percent, Syosset Hospital implemented a comprehensive approa...

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services' inpatient quality reporting program includes appr...

The Hospital Survey on Patient Safety Culture: 2012 User Comparative Database Report provides res...

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

SSM Saint Mary’s Medical CenterSaint Louis, MO 374 Beds The Problem Better Outcomes for Older Ad...