Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Schuyler Hospital’s Healthy Eating Active Living (HEAL) Schuyler initiative offers various opport...

BackgroundIllinois Valley Community Hospital is a 49-bed, not-for-profit hospital located in Peru...

The Community Health Network (CHN) targets the socioeconomic determinants of health that are not ...

Concussions are a growing problem for young athletes. The hospital’s overall goal is to educate a...

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

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

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

Phase I consisted of developing and implementing protocols for cases presenting to the emergency ...

Lake Placid and Tupper Lake, nursing homes that are part of Adirondack Health, Saranac Lake, N.Y....

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

The Human Services Alliance of Beaufort County is one of the oldest coalitions for health improve...

What is it? Now in its third year, Camp Med is a three-day, hands-on experience at the hospital t...

This report highlights nearly 80 evidence-based disease and injury prevention programs. These pro...

Newark Department of Child and Family Well-BeingNewark NJ The Problem In 2003, The Newark (N.J.)...

Cheyenne Regional Medical Center and Cheyenne Health and Wellness Center partner on several initi...

An ED case management program was developed to implement tactics focused on reducing ED avoidable...

The Tool for Health and Resilience in Vulnerable Environments program seeks to enable raising com...

Little is known about the unique health needs and experiences of lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans...

Project Perlas is a community-based participatory research project addressing disparities in mamm...

Neighborhood and environment are important determinants of health in addition to individual chara...

Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...

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

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

Traditionally, primary care physicians maintain chief responsibility for treating their criticall...

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

Overcrowding and bottlenecks with patient flow plague hospitals and emergency rooms across the co...

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

Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...

Baylor Health Care SystemDallas, TX3,653 Beds The Problem The Baylor Health Care System Office o...

This article presents four case studies of effective community and academic partnership that impr...

These programs take health education, information and related services directly to community memb...