Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

Montefiore Medical Center’s goal was to increase access and supply of healthy food and beverage o...

To better serve its patients and reduce the effects of ineffective pain management, Mercy Hospita...

Washington Heights, a community impacted by 770 cases of domestic violence a day, now has the Fam...

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

The disease management process at Bassett Medical Center was positively impacted after the hospit...

Nurses at Mercy Hospital of Buffalo, part of Catholic Health, introduced a Diabetes Education Qui...

As many older patients are affected by Clostridium difficile (C.diff) in hospital settings, South...

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 ...

Serious dental problems can affect the overall well-being of an individual. Therefore, Mount St. ...

Like many hospitals, SBH Health System uses the computerized provider order entry (CPOE) system. ...

To help reduce 30-day readmission rates, South Nassau Communities Hospital implemented “Right Car...

SBH Health System implemented numerous strategies to reduce the number of Cather-Associated Urina...

Cortland Regional Medical Center’s Transitional Care Program is working to reduce 30-day readmiss...

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

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

MedEx Bedside Prescription Delivery is the very first bedside medication delivery service for hos...

Since 2012, the Aiming for Zero program at Northwell Hospital is continuously working to reduce C...

Northern Westchester Hospital is improving their patients’ experience through the Food Is Care pr...

The St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center created a Hypoglycemic Task Force to recognize and decrea...

The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...

Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...

The University of Vermont Health Network – Champlain Valley Physicians Hospital recently develope...

Carthage Area Hospital is improving patient and employee experiences by providing them with fresh...

North Shore University Hospital’s palliative care unit emphasizes quality of life by providing pa...

Erie County Medical Center's "boots on the floor" initiative began by hiring five full-time patie...

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...

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 ...

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

 White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital Center’s interdisciplinary team developed a disinfection procedure ...

Hypertension—the silent killer—impacts more than one in three Americans and is a leading cause of...

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

Brookhaven Memorial Hospital Medical Center established the Quality Excellence Council at the beg...

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

A patient's home environment or lack of support system can have a negative impact on their health...

The feeling of being truly cared for leaves a lasting impression and aids in the healing process....

United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

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

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

Albany Medical Center developed the Child Advocacy Resident Education program that aims to improv...

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

Care for people with multiple chronic health conditions is often fragmented, resulting in increas...

Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...

The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

This project addresses the needs of patients at high risk for C. difficile on a complex medical u...

In March 2009, after assessing staff's knowledge about fire prevention and safety, St. Mary's Hos...

Rochester General Hospital formed a multidisciplinary team to develop and implement actions that ...

Stony Brook University Medical Center joined the Institute for Healthcare Improvement critical ca...

Rochester General Hospital's infection prevention team partnered with the surgical intensive care...

Smart infusion pump technology improves patient safety by providing decision support for nursing ...

Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

South Nassau Communities Hospital initiated the "Knot So Fast" project to promote a safe and effi...

In 2006, Southampton Hospital's department of nursing conducted a needs assessment focusing on th...

The Joint Academy is a multidisciplinary team approach that begins in the community with orthoped...

Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

Pertussis is a highly contagious respiratory disease caused by the bacterium Bordetella pertussis...

For more than ten years, St. Elizabeth Medical Center has focused on length of stay and resource ...

Rome Memorial Hospital began this project as a prelude to developing a progressive mobility progr...

Brooks Memorial Hospital's radiology department identified a need to improve the transcription of...

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

Olean General Hospital is one of only a few community hospitals in the nation to offer a center o...

In 2005, Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center's leadership directed implementation of ...

A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...

The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

Performing well with the core measures has become increasingly important and challenging for heal...

At Mountainside Residential Care Center's resident council, residents requested an improved dinin...

In the winter of 2010, Newark-Wayne Community Hospital initiated its first Comprehensive Unit-Bas...

The average length of stay for patients undergoing single elective total joint replacement surger...

St. Vincent's Hospital Westchester, division of Saint Joseph's Medical Center began this initiati...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

NuHealth Nassau University Medical Center identified central line-associated blood stream infecti...

As part of a larger process redesign focused on Northern Westchester Hospital's inpatient medical...

To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

With unique culture trends and stringent regulatory obligations, patient care units are often cha...

The Institute for Healthcare Improvement estimates that 48 percent of intensive care unit patient...

Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

The Brooklyn Hospital Center formed a multidisciplinary rapid response team in 2009 to respond to...

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

With hand hygiene compliance at 37.3 percent, Syosset Hospital implemented a comprehensive approa...

Mount St. Mary's Hospital and Healthcare Center created the hospital point of dispensing (HPOD) t...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

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

At the end of the second quarter of 2010, The Brooklyn Hospital Center identified that only four ...

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

The goal of this performance improvement initiative was to improve patient safety and control hea...

The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

Preventing health care-associated infections is a critical step in reducing morbidity and mortali...

An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...

Multidisciplinary rounding (MDR) is a model of care in which multiple members of the care deliver...

Medication, in addition to other treatment options, is an integral part of the care provided to l...

For 18 months, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center implemented several interve...

Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

For the past three years, New York Medical College at Westchester Medical Center has been develop...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

This journey began when St. Francis Hospital gave fruit cocktail to a patient with a severe aller...