Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Maimonides Medical Center implemented four evidence-based practices using the Plan, Do, Study, Ac...

In 2015, the geriatric and palliative care team at South Nassau Communities Hospital sponsored a ...

Stony Brook University Hospital coordinated efforts with its emergency department and ambulatory ...

BackgroundHenry Ford Health System is a not-for-profit corporation composed of hospitals, medical...

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

BackgroundMedStar Health is a not-for-profit health system in the Maryland and Washington, D.C., ...

BackgroundMultiCare Health System is a not-for-profit health care organization based in Tacoma, W...

BackgroundOchsner Health System in southeast Louisiana manages 13 hospitals and more than 40 heal...

After recognizing asthma as a major condition for many patients in the emergency department, St. ...

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

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

The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

Concurrent review of three core measure sets has ensured appropriate and timely patient care. The...

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...

Inappropriate stress ulcer prophylaxis is a serious problem across the health care continuum. Lit...

Sepsis is a medical condition with high rates of morbidity, mortality and cost and it is the most...

Reducing inpatient length of stay has a strong impact on value and organizational performance, an...

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's quality award submissions are highlighted on HPOE....

According to published research data, the majority of cardiac stent patients have no additional r...

Undergoing surgery of any kind can be a stressful experience for patients and their families. The...

Mercy, a large Catholic health care system, began its telehealth initiatives with an eICU program...

In January 2015, Southern Illinois Healthcare, based in Carbondale, was awarded an 18-month USDA ...

Funded by grants from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Health Resources and Serv...

Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

The Baystate Health Breast and Wellness Center, created in 2013, is a combination of two premier ...

The premise of this project was that failure to maintain a patient's respect and dignity represen...

The collaborative was launched by Harvard Medical School Center for Primary Care in 2012 to trans...

Approximately two years ago frontline staff presented a proposal to remove bed and chair alarms f...

Four years ago this hospital had no clinical leadership development program. Physician leaders wi...

Patient and system tracers have been conducted at this institution since 2008. Prior to this proj...

A house wide effort was lead this year to teach and embed continuous improvement methodology and ...

As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

Tufts Medical Center made a decision to create its own quality improvement training for its workf...

In 2012, a physician-led Pioneer accountable care organization recognized an opportunity to bette...

The health system's vision in 2014 was "to transform the delivery and financing of health care to...

The ICMP Program is a Care Manager collaborative created to ensure the transition of patient care...

North Shore Medical Center aims to provide the perfect patient experience based on evidence-based...

The skilled nursing facility three-day waiver program is an exciting opportunity at Partners Heal...

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

At Brigham and Women’s Hospital, a small group of challenging patients account for a disproportio...

Under the leadership of the Process Improvement (PI) Department, the organization has been drivin...

The Perioperative Medicine Model of Care is a three-pronged approach to the postoperative care of...

North Shore Medical Center is dedicated to safely transitioning all emergency department patients...

TEMPO: Together Everyone Improves Patient Outcomes, an initiative undertaken at Saint Vincent Hos...

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

Brigham and Women’s Hospital found that diagnostic care for patients who were referred within the...

As the complexity and cost of cancer care increases, there is an urgent need to support and track...

Through this initiative, Highland Healthcare Associates IPA seeks to improve the physician's expe...

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

New England Quality Care Alliance, a physician network, implemented a medication prior authorizat...

Boston Children’s Hospital and its associated pediatric primary care physicians organization coll...

The Care Tracker program at Signature Healthcare collates data from multiple sources, including b...

Diagnostic care for patients referred within the institution for suspicious lung lesions was vari...

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

Children with complex medical conditions have a broad range of medical, social and supportive nee...

The School Based Care Coordination Program supports at-risk youth and families in two school dist...

Newton-Wellesley Hospital reviewed rates of third and fourth degree obstetrical trauma (Patient S...

CDC data shows that over 70 percent of patients with pre-diabetes will develop type 2 diabetes du...

To meet a high demand for Chinese interpreters, the Tufts Medical Center Interpreter Services wor...

The integrated specialty pharmacy program at UMass Memorial Medical Center in Worcester, Mass., i...

In early 2010, Emerson Hospital board members, medical staff and executive leaders convened to ad...

The project's goal was to reduce the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumonia in trached and ...

Hallmark Health System, Inc., is participating in the Community-based Care Transitions Program (C...

With the national focus on decreasing hospital-acquired infections, Massachusetts General Hospita...

At Massachusetts General Hospital for Children, the pediatric intensive care unit has been implem...

Dedicated to eliminating catheter-associated urinary tract infections, North Shore Medical Center...

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

Catheter associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) account for 30-40 percent of the organizati...

This health care system's unique post-acute care (PAC) continuum of Inpatient Rehabilitation Faci...

T4P/BREATHE is an inter-professional project created in response to improving patient outcomes an...

This case study presents the story of CareSouth Carolina and the Northeastern Rural Health Networ...

Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has help...

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

The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

The NewYork-Presbyterian Healthcare System implemented multidisciplinary ICU mobilization teams t...

North Shore-Long Island Jewish Health System opened a facility to treet heavioral health and prim...

NYU Lutheran Healthcare, Brooklyn, N.Y., created a shared medical appointment program transformin...

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

The Heathcare Association of New York State announced its 2015 Community Health Improvement award...

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

This project was designed to improve the total health care for patients of a community mental hea...

When River Hospital, Alexandria Bay, N.Y., identified an unmet mental health need for active duty...

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

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

The Muskegon Community Health Project, in partnership with Mercy Health Partners, is an inclusive...

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

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

Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...

Matching patients with primary care physicians was top priority of this project improvement by th...

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

With four hospitals and more than 120 employed medical providers, St. Charles Health System is a ...

This case study describes a pilot program to find out the effect that integrative behavioral heal...

Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...

Chambers County was designated by the Health Resources and Services Administration as one of the ...

Mississippi Baptist Health Systems, Jackson, Miss.– 633 beds– 3,000-plus employees In 1997, Miss...

The medical center experienced a 115 percent increase in behavioral health (BH) patients presenti...

The traditional behavioral health access model of calling for an appointment which is subsequentl...