Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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...

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...

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 ...

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

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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

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

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...

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 ...