Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

March 12-18, 2017, is Patient Safety Awareness Week, led by the National Patient Safety Foundatio...

March 12–18 is Patient Safety Awareness Week. HPOE.org offers guides, tools, case studies...

U.S. health care leaders are continually working to improve care processes while advancing a medi...

A history as a resource-challenged urban safety net hospital with a high-risk population, a lack ...

A “Germ Crusher” challenge at Children’s Hospital Colorado brought together leadership, staff, pa...

Bassett Medical Center, a 180-bed hospital in Cooperstown, New York, has implemented and sustaine...

Clark Regional Medical Center (CRMC) is a 79 bed, community hospital serving the residents of eas...

Norwood Hospital is a full-service, 263-bed community hospital in Norwood, Massachusetts. In 2013...

One patient safety tool can be used in all care and service areas, improving safety and quality f...

In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...

The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

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

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

The daily operational safety exercise was an initiative spearheaded by the patient safety departm...

To truly transform care, hospitals and care systems must effectively engage patients and their fa...

The hospital carried out a multidisciplinary team-based approach to improving the safety and appr...

The only acceptable number of avoidable patient harms is zero. At Ponca City (Okla.) Medical Cent...

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...

Although rare and difficult to study, wrong-site surgery is a serious risk recognized by health c...

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

The National Patient Safety Foundation leads Patient Safety Awareness Week in early March to prom...

Goal-Reduce and prevent medical errors by adopting best practices and procedures. The Patient Sa...

The Partnership for Patients Hospital Engagement Networks are designed to improve patient care ac...

The aviation industry has successfully used checklists to ensure safe air travel for passengers a...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...

Written by HRET staff member Cynthia Hedges Greising and AHA-NPSF Comprehensive Patient Safety Fe...

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

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

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

Background: Despite increasing recognition that patients could play an important role in promotin...

Marking its 60th anniversary last year, Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, NJ, can count many accompli...

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

At Franciscan St. James Health, the nursery had the highest rate of "zero" orders (orders not on ...

A multidisciplinary perioperative safety team was formed focused on improving perioperative asses...

Providing quality care for our tiniest patients, many hospitals are eliminating elective early te...

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

The patient safety portal includes links to valuable tools and resources.

Early elective deliveries have been proven to increase the risk of adverse health outcomes post d...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

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

The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

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

In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...

This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...

In 2006, New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation declared a bold vision for patient safety...

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

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

Anticoagulants have been identified as one of the top five medication classes associated with pat...

Smart infusion pump technology improves patient safety by providing decision support for nursing ...

Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...

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

This study used written portfolios to capture reflective learning that trainees described about t...

The Minnesota Hospital Association's SAFE SKIN program provides hospital leaders with resources o...

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 new Multi-professional Patient Safety Curriculum Guide released by WHO Patient Safety in Octo...

Could changing the staffing model in the intensive care unit reduce patients' risk of dying?Accor...

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

The Joint Commission's 2011 National Patient Safety Goals.

Front-line nurses led the way in a medication safety initiative at Stanford Hospital & Clinics, S...

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

March 6-12 is designated as National Patient Safety Awareness Week...and we know that America's h...

At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago, Nancy Donaldson, R.N., dir...

At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...

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

The Problem Adverse drug events occur in as many as 10 percent of hospitalized patients, with th...

The ProblemMedication errors in the health care delivery system are the most common type of error...