Nurses have always been on the front lines at hospitals providing quality, compassionate care for...

April 4th, 2017
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Every aspect of a patient’s experience of care is influenced by valuable and often underused reso...

September 12th, 2016
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Hospitals and faith organizations are collaborating to improve health care outcomes and organize ...

April 4th, 2016
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Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...

December 14th, 2015

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

August 17th, 2015
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Making incremental changes and collaborating with area hospitals and community organizations have...

October 20th, 2014
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It is estimated that 25 percent of falls by hospital patients are preventable. Saint Alphonsus Re...

July 28th, 2014
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Small tests of change can give hospitals momentum and show early progress in improvement projects...

July 14th, 2014
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Zero is an important number at Broward Health North. The 409-bed community hospital in Deerfield ...

September 9th, 2013
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It is both a sprint and a marathon.” That's how a team at St. Joseph Mercy Hospital in Ann Arbor,...

July 29th, 2013
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Increasing patient adherence to medications? Check. Providing safe, patient-centered care? Check...

November 19th, 2012
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Involving everyone from front-line staff to executive committees to home health agencies to patie...

November 12th, 2012
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By "re-engineering"discharge and enhancing communication, The Chester County Hospital, West Chest...

September 24th, 2012
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Wrong site surgeries are rare and difficult to study. But most health care organizations recogniz...

February 27th, 2012
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Educating staff. Connecting patients to primary care physicians upon discharge. Identifying patie...

October 3rd, 2011
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The mission: to eliminate all preventable harm by January 1, 2012. The team leaders: board of dir...

June 27th, 2011
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Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

June 6th, 2011
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Salt and a jar of pickles: That's what one HealthEast (St. Paul, Minn.) transition coach found in...

April 11th, 2011
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