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

December 17th, 2015
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Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...

December 14th, 2015

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

November 23rd, 2015
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Charleston Area Medical Center Health System is a 2015 recipient of the Malcolm Baldrige National...

November 23rd, 2015
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TeamSTEPPS is designed to improve patient safety through effective communication and teamwork ski...

November 19th, 2015
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Leadership, innovation and commitment to quality and safety—all are needed to deliver exceptional...

November 16th, 2015

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

October 26th, 2015
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Kennedy Health Decreases Sepsis BackgroundKennedy Health is an integrated health delivery system...

October 20th, 2015
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The Illinois Health and Hospital Association's Institute for Innovations in Care and Quality, Qua...

October 6th, 2015
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Evidence-based guidelines now support restrictive red blood cell transfusion practices to enhance...

October 6th, 2015
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Failure to rescue is the failure to recognize or act upon the patient's decline in condition resu...

October 6th, 2015
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In May 2011, the hospital was experiencing an increase in mislabeled specimens among the ED and o...

October 6th, 2015
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This AHRQ video vignette  illustrates how to engage dialysis patients in infection prevention....

October 5th, 2015
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A unique telemedicine consultation between a rural hospital and skilled rehabilitation/nursing fa...

October 5th, 2015
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The link between excessive work hours and adverse errors is inseparable. This project investigate...

September 14th, 2015
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Hypoglycemia can cause considerable harm to patients including the potential for falls, seizures,...

September 14th, 2015
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The goal of this project was to reduce the number of injection errors occurring at the hospital's...

September 14th, 2015
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Elizabethtown (N.Y.) Community Hospital's care transition program successfully reduced all-cause ...

September 9th, 2015

 White Plains (N.Y.) Hospital Center’s interdisciplinary team developed a disinfection procedure ...

September 9th, 2015

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

August 24th, 2015
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