Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

The Chairman’s File columns provide just a glimpse of the excellent work that our nation’s hospit...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...

More and more hospitals and health systems are leading community collaborations to create positiv...

In this study, the research team sought to compare the performance of provider-sponsored health p...

Join more than 900 hospitals and health systems and 30 state and metropolitan hospital associatio...

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize honors hospitals that demonstrate progress in achieving ...

Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...

Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...

The largest drivers of disease in populations are unhealthy behaviors, such as smoking, unhealthy...

The Alliance for a Healthier South Carolina is an unprecedented volunteer collaboration of more t...

This case study presents the story of CareSouth Carolina and the Northeastern Rural Health Networ...

Since 2007, The Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Psychiatry Residency program has help...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

Overcoming language barriers with patients improves communication, a critical element of safety a...

Cultural competency is critical to reducing health care disparities and improving access to high-...

Hospitals and health systems are focusing on cultural competence to create an environment and wor...

Hospitals strive to achieve the Triple Aim. This collection of case studies features three exampl...

  Violence is a serious safety issue for many communities and hospitals across the United States...

Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...

Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...

In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health ...

This HPOE webinar highlights innovations for eliminating health care disparities and will feature...

Baseball managers tinker with team lineups to improve results on the field, and hospitals can do ...

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 ...

Utilizing Six Sigma's DMAIC model, this project looked at ways to decrease errors in the document...

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...

Patient safety is the number one priority at this facility. After discussing medication errors at...

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

In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

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...

This AHRQ video vignette  illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention....

A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

  For more than two decades, health services researchers have been using statewide hospital disc...

A new HPOE Guide “Increasing Supplier Diversity in Health Care” provides action steps and case st...

Nine in 10 adults in the community lacked the literacy skills to manage their health and prevent ...

It is certain that health status is profoundly influenced by the places in which people live, wor...

More than 90 percent of U.S. hospitals are committed to population health. This is according to a...

Patient and family engagement is associated with fewer adverse events, lower health care costs, d...

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...

Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

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

The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...

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

Blood transfusions to treat anemia can have a significant impact on patient outcomes. It was reco...

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...

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...

The Hospitals in Pursuit of Excellence website highlights quality improvement stories at hundreds...

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...

Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...

To support hospitals embarking on their population health journey, the Health Research & Educatio...

What does it take to be a winner? Children's Hospital Colorado received the 2015 AHA-McKesson Que...

As hospitals expand their focus on providing equitable care, attention on those who are lesbian, ...

Teamwork champions on a diverse change team: These were key as The MetroHealth System in Clevelan...

In early 2011, AHA members, committees, regional policy boards and staff discussed and crafted a ...

Virtual Health Village is a health information exchange for sharing secure, up-to-date student he...

This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...

Apps and iPads are tools of choice for improving the health of Pennsylvania schoolchildren. Lehig...

Addressing the complex needs of older patients and their caregivers is the focus of the Bridge Mo...

The Bridge Model improves transitions of care by utilizing master’s-educated social workers in a ...

The work to advance health care equity is always evolving, always improving at Henry Ford Health ...

Read about how patient and family engagement practices are related to patient experiences. This s...

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

A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...

Massachusetts General Hospital's (MGH) 2012 community health needs assessment, in which communiti...

This infographic provides a summary of the HPOE guide “Partnering to Improve Quality and Safety: ...

Diversity and inclusion are key strategic goals at Robert Wood Johnson University Hospital in cen...

Leadership is needed to direct resources and programs aimed at reducing health care disparitities...

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

Two health care systems and more than 20 community organizations are improving the health and wel...

Diversity is becoming a key word in health care. Hospitals and health care systems are focusing o...

In 2008, the two hospital systems partnered with the city of Whittier, the YMCA of Greater Whitti...

This New York Times blog was written by a resident in internal medicine at Massachusetts General ...

The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

Each year, the Illinois Hospital Association recognizes and celebrates the achievements of Illino...

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

Palmetto Health has pursued multiple initiatives and strategies to promote a healthy community an...

Working with community organizations, including competitors, Palmetto Health is improving the hea...

Health care teams that communicate effectively reduce the potential for human error, resulting in...

The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

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

During the 2013-14 influenza season, an emergency preparedness mass influenza vaccination drill w...

The Healthy You program was designed to enhance whole person health of the hospital's team member...