Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Managing the flow of patient throughput is essential to preventing overcrowding in the emergency ...

National Academy of Clinical Biochemistry guidelines for biomarkers of acute coronary syndrome an...

Data from the AHRQ Safety Culture Survey indicated the need to improve mechanisms for incident ca...

The country’s highest presidential honor for performance excellence through innovation, improveme...

Sharing best practices and facilitating peer-to-peer learning were core elements of the AHA/HRET ...

Three Illinois hospitals received recognition for “delivering quality with distinction” by the Il...

Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

Hospitals are on a never-ending journey of quality improvement—employing new technologies and tec...

A recent study of 39 children's hospitals revealed 16 organizations have antimicrobial stewardshi...

After experiencing an increase in CLABSI, the vascular access team and infection prevention and c...

Adoption of rapid response teams has grown dramatically in hospital settings. Despite limited evi...

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

Oregon's community hospitals are committed to working together to produce high-quality patient ca...

Accreditation by The Joint Commission was associated with stronger performance on disease-specifi...

This multi-case study describes how eight hospitals used Lean Six Sigma to examine and improve wo...

Due to the size and breadth of their organizations, multi-hospital health system leaders have a s...

Ten years ago, the Institute of Medicine shocked the health care field and the general public wit...

The Problem Emergency departments across the nation are being stretched as more Americans rely o...