Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The best way to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) is to limit the use ...

Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...

According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...

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...

Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...

After reducing health care-acquired deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE) in 2011,...

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

Restraint documentation was a challenge at the hospital for multiple reasons, including the imple...

In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...

Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

While the implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ venous thromboembolism ...

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...

Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...

This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...

Staff at this community-based rural hospital in northwest Illinois that treats more than 18,000 e...

Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...

This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for ...

The goal of this project was to standardize protocols for controlling patient pain following tota...

The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), defined as a deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary emboli, is linke...

The 2012 New England Compounding Center tragedy and ongoing drug shortages have caused a dramatic...

Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...

The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...

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

Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...

The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...

Medical dispense overrides allow nurses to dispense medications from the Pyxis machine without ph...

Patient falls during hospitalization can lead to increased inpatient care costs, decreased patien...

The organization initiated a project identified by the Infection Control Committee to reduce Fole...

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...

As identified in its 2014 Culture of Safety survey, the hospital’s overall mean score for the sta...

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

In 2013, the facility’s hospital-onset (HO) infection rate for Clostridium difficile (C. diff) ha...

A review of the hospital’s quality indicators revealed an unacceptable rate of catheter-associate...

The project focused on managing sepsis in the emergency department and in admitted patients, with...

Although episiotomy was once considered a routine part of childbirth, in recent years, there has ...

The hospital’s venous thromboembolism (VTE) rate for total joint patients was 36.2 in 2011 and 37...

The ultimate goal for patients who are mechanically ventilated is to promptly and safely disconti...

The project includes a hard stop chain of command. When scheduling an induction or C-section, the...

The medical center has made significant progress in improving physician-patient communication thr...

The prevention of hospital-acquired pressure ulcers (HAPUs) is a major focus for health care orga...

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

Central line-associated bloodstream infections (CLABSIs) are a major cause of morbidity and morta...

The clinic throughput time was viewed as excessive and lacked standardized best practices. A new ...

This project involves raising awareness and expanding the palliative care program at HSHS St. Joh...

By using evidence-based medicine and hardwiring concurrent review, HSHS St. Joseph's Hospital Hig...

Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

Senior leadership at Streamwood Behavioral Healthcare System assembled an improvement team to use...

The blood bank relocated to a new hospital facility while the labor and delivery (L&D) unit remai...

Administration of medications is one of the most error-prone stages in the medication use process...

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

Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...

This project aimed to reduce the OR turnover time for total joint cases. Baseline data showed it ...

Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

The project improved the pharmacy to hospital floor Rx process to decrease returns, optimize auto...

Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...

Hospital readmissions are costly for both patients and facilities. At the time of discharge, pati...

Broadens view of care delivery from hospital-based practice to the entire bundle episode (30-days...

The goal of this project was to decrease the utilization rates of indwelling urinary catheters an...

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

An accurate home medication list serves as the "source of truth" for the entire process of medica...

Falls prevention continues to be a focus on all patient units and is a priority for safe care thr...

The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

The C. diff collaborative is an ongoing initiative that was developed to improve the early identi...

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

Their journey to eliminate falls with injury started last year, working towards a safety culture ...

Patients are often poorly prepared to manage acute and chronic conditions following their dischar...

Utilization of Evidence-Based Guidelines for Outcomes Improvements, 30-Day Readmissions and Morta...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection is the second most commonly reported hospital-associa...

Central line-associated bloodstream infections continue to be associated with high costs and mort...

Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries This case study is part of the Illinois Hospital Associ...

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

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...

Their project was an effort to reduce DVT/PE incidence. This case study is part of the Illinois ...

Central line-associated blood stream infections cause serious patient harm, leading to thousands ...

During FY2014, the surgical site infections rate at this academic medical center increased to 21....

GOAL: Eliminate early elective deliveries

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

The health care system has been working to reduce acute care readmissions for the targeted popula...

The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...

Their project was an effort to reduce DVT/PE incidence. This case study is part of the Illinois H...

The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

Perineal trauma during childbirth can lead to significant short- or long-term complications such ...

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...

Maternal cardiac arrest is rare but often fatal. Obstetricians and perinatal nurses are often fir...

The goal was to reduce the delay in patient care by reducing patient wait times, both from reques...

Parental satisfaction with pediatric emergency department visits has been argued to be best predi...

The medical center consistently missed internal quality targets, with a mean HAPU rate for 2007-2...

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...

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

Human resources and the nursing leadership team worked together using a PDCA for rapid cycle impr...

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