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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...
A vigorous approach to quality improvement at Memorial Medical Center in Springfield, Ill., is ac...
Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...
Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...
Take best practices from two industries focused on safety and reliability—nuclear power and aviat...
Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...
Four generations are working side by side in hospitals and care systems today. Atlantic Health Sy...
Learn from the best of the best. The 2013 AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize® recipients will s...
At North Shore-LIJ Health System, teamwork is everywhere. This New York health system uses TeamST...
Patients admitted to a hospital for one condition—congestive heart failure, for example—are typic...
What a difference three years of focusing on performance improvement can make! In 2009, metrics a...
Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...
"Commitment to caring" and "quality improvement" and"patient engagement" are more than catchphras...
Building a culture of quality and safety in hospitals requires accomplished and courageous health...
Continuous. Quality. Improvement. To achieve that goal, Meriter Hospital, a 448-bed facility in M...
Implementing quality improvement projects can improve patient safety and reduce inefficiency. But...
Integrating the electronic health record to improve the overall care and health of the communitie...
Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...
Overcoming transition challenges requires tenacity and teamwork. During a time of transition befo...
Electronic health records may create less paperwork, but documentation can still be time-consumin...
An integrated approach to project design drove breakthrough improvement in operating results at S...
Rethinking a registration process kept its meds system in compliance. St. James Hospital and Heal...
"Navigating the rising tide of HACs" is what Baystate Medical Center (BMC) calls this project. A ...
At the 7th Biennial Joanna Briggs International Colloquium in Chicago this fall, Kathi Patterson,...
When an employee found directions in her hospital?s emergency department?with directions to other...
Quality improvement and transparency go hand in hand, David Ballard, M.D., senior vice president ...
After reading many success stories about hospitals streamlining and improving patient flow in the...
Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...
When the Infection Prevention and Control Department of Medical Center of McKinney in McKinney, T...
When the H1N1 flu virus emerged in the spring of 2009, U.S. hospitals were challenged by crowded ...
When change proves challenging, involving everyone in the process can be key. Advocate Good Sheph...
