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...

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

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

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

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...

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

Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

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....

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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 ...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

The Brooklyn Hospital Center Family Medicine Department made a commitment to improve the quality ...

Failure or delays in filling prescriptions at the time of hospital discharge contributes to poor ...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

Stern Family Center for Extended Care and Rehabilitation tracked hospital readmissions and found ...

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...

South Nassau Communities Hospital's goal for this initiative was to ensure rapid identification o...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

St. Joseph's Hospital of Elmira implemented a comprehensive antibiotic usage program beginning Ma...

Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...

Outside the intensive care unit, catheters remain in place for a longer duration; therefore, it i...

Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

Falls prevention monitoring led to a closer look at Mercy Medical Center's acute inpatient rehabi...

Emergency department admitted patients used to wait an average of 24 hours for an inpatient bed a...