Quality and safety are “top of the agenda” at urban and rural hospitals across the country. At Ho...

November 28th, 2016
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Using HOUDINI to eliminate CAUTI. It’s all about decreasing the inappropriate use of indwelling c...

May 16th, 2016
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State and regional hospital associations across the United States are recognizing hospitals and h...

March 21st, 2016
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Mission accomplished, but the work continues. At Our Lady of Lourdes Regional Medical Center in L...

December 14th, 2015

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

November 23rd, 2015
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Each year more than one million patients in the United States are diagnosed with sepsis, a condit...

October 26th, 2015
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Nearly 1,500 U.S. hospitals are working to eliminate patient harm and reduce hospital readmission...

October 13th, 2014
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Teamwork between infection control and environmental services professionals at Hunterdon Medical ...

October 21st, 2013

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

July 22nd, 2013
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Think of all the instruments, equipment and furniture in a hospital operating room. Any of these ...

May 6th, 2013
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More than 64 million surgeries are performed annually in the United States. Preventing surgical s...

April 22nd, 2013
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Ensuring the highest quality for patient care means continuously reviewing processes and outcomes...

April 15th, 2013
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Central line-associated bloodstream infections cause serious illness and death. Front-line caregi...

January 28th, 2013
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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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Small but mighty describes Neosho Memorial Regional Medical Center, a 25-bed critical access hosp...

July 9th, 2012
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Occupying a five-block campus on Chicago's west side and serving an area that stretches about 15 ...

May 21st, 2012
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Careful planning and multidisciplinary teamwork were keys for Bethesda Hospital, a 140-bed long-t...

November 7th, 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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