Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

Teamwork between infection control and environmental services professionals at Hunterdon Medical ...

Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...

Only a small percentage of patients develop a health care-associated infection after surgery, and...

Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...

Does your hospital huddle? Staff in the medical-surgical unit at Fairbanks (AK) Memorial Hospital...

Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

For people with diabetes, getting the proper treatment for foot wounds can prevent lingering prob...

Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...

The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...

Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

Abington (Pa.) Memorial Hospital has used everything from screen saver reminders to notes from th...

The Problem Antimicrobial resistance is a growing problem nationwide, caused, in part, by injudi...