Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

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...

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

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

To align the hospital ministry with the needs of the community and to reduce avoidable health car...

St. John's implemented a web-based business intelligence platform that integrates physician quali...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

In January 2011, utilizing the hospital’s system-wide electronic medical records, a family medici...

South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

The project began with a focus on CHF readmissions. As the multidisciplinary team saw decreases i...

The Department of Veterans Affairs home-based primary care  began in 1972.  Home-based primary ca...

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

Garfield Medical Center, a 210-bed facility in Monterey, California, used best practices and peer...

Hospital Menonita de Cayey, a 208-bed facility in Cayey, Puerto Rico, used best practices and pee...

Kishwaukee Hospital, DeKalb, Ill., created a total knee and hip joint replacement center of excel...

Founded in 1912, MedStar St. Mary's Hospital serves the people of St. Mary's County, Maryland. A ...

Lean Six Sigma tools were used to reduce pressure ulcers at Memorial Health System, Springfield, ...

OSF Healthcare, Peoria, Ill., wanted to improve the care of patients experiencing an ST elevation...

Presence St. Mary’s Hospital, Kankakee, Ill., improved readmission rates for heart failure patien...

Pekin (Ill.) Hospital used plan-do-study-act with evidence-based practice research, guidelines re...

Saint Anthony Health Center, Alton, Ill., took a hard look at data from its cancer program and fo...

Strengthening - Treatment - Outcomes - Patients Elmhurst Hospital Center participated in develop...

Many Medicare patients with life-limiting illnesses had no documented advanced directive while in...

Only 20 percent  of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients at the hospital were properly ...

Only 20 percent  of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease patients at the hospital were properly ...

During 2011, the hospital joined the IHA Project Re-Engineering Discharge (RED) collaborative to ...

A gap analysis was conducted. Key themes emerged in this analysis such as inadequate preparation ...

All practices participating in Better Health Greater Cleveland collect and submit data on patient...

Pinnacle Health System Harrisburg, PA599 Beds The Problem Health systems are no longer simply as...