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Hospitals and health systems recognized for excellence in health care equity are sharing their wo...
When Olean (NY) General Hospital decided to improve medication management by using technology, it...
While many health care-acquired infections are transmitted by personal contact due to poor hand h...
Making cleanliness everyone's responsibility was part of an infection control and patient safety ...
At the AHA/Health Forum Leadership Summit in July, David Pryor, M.D., chief medical officer for S...
Alegent Health, a 10-hospital system based in Nebraska and Southwestern Iowa, wanted an electroni...
The medical standard for timely angioplasty was 90 minutes door to balloon. The average for Lehi...
Senior leaders at Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Oakland, knew the system's community-acq...
Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...
When Poudre Valley Health System, based in Fort Collins, Colo., started using bedside medication ...
A wrong-site surgery on a toe was the catalyst for a comprehensive new surgical time-out initiati...
For many hospitals, the road to improved quality often begins with transparency, where unexpected...
Texas Health Resources, a 14-hospital system based in Arlington, wanted to not only reduce ventil...
For executive leaders at Catholic Healthcare Partners, Cincinnati, patient safety is an issue to ...
When Katherine Herrmann, the clinical quality facilitator at Henry Ford Health System, Detroit, w...
When the Infection Prevention and Control Department of Medical Center of McKinney in McKinney, T...
At Columbia St. Mary's Hospital, Milwaukee, discharge planning truly begins at admission. Care te...
Reducing patient readmissions is both a critical patient safety need and a growing financial conc...
Even best practices need fine-tuning. When the critical care team at Piedmont Hospital, Atlanta, ...
Aesop?s fable "The Bundle of Sticks" teaches a lesson in working together: "Union gives strength....