Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Hospitals are helping students with disabilities transition from school to the workplace. Mat-Su ...

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

The concept of the Triple Aim is  widely used, partially because of IHI’s work with many organiza...

The AHA and the American Medical Association collaborated on this paper to present both physician...

United Memorial Medical Center, Batavia, N.Y., focused on patients with congestive heart failure,...

South Nassau Communities Hospital, Oceanside, N.Y., focused on educating patients with chronic co...

This article from Hospitals & Health Networks, the journal of the American Hospital Association, ...

Some patients have difficulty effectively managing their medications because they don't fully und...

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

Here's a disheartening statistic from the National Cancer Institute: in the United States, white ...

The heart failure quality improvement team set out to improve scores on heart failure core measur...

A team was created to ensure that all patients regardless of race, ethnicity, language, disabilit...

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

Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical CenterCincinnati, OH577 Beds Cincinnati Children’s Hospit...

Helen DeVos Children’s HospitalGrand Rapids, MI212 Beds Helen DeVos Children’s Hospital examined...

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

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

Alice Hyde Medical Center's new program is designed to ensure safe medication administration in t...

Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

Highland Hospital's Geriatric Fracture Center has achieved improved clinical outcomes (complicati...

Effective teamwork and communication techniques can improve quality and safety, decrease patient ...

Children's Mercy Hospitals & ClinicsKansas City, MO265 Beds The Problem The patient population a...

Holy Cross HospitalSilver Spring, MD425 Beds The Problem Holy Cross is a not-for-profit teaching...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

The patient population of Heywood Hospital in Gardner, Mass., seemed to lack diversity. But by ac...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...

"There are two jobs at Faxton-St. Luke's Healthcare, Utica, N.Y. "taking care of patients directl...

The ProblemMedication reconciliation—comparing a patient's medication orders to all medications t...

The Problem In 2004, Faxton Hospital and St. Luke's-Memorial Hospital merged. The leaders of the...

The ProblemFlowers wanted to improve its performance on the 28 quality measures that are featured...

The Problem The women and infants department's lean journey began in early 2006 when a local hos...

The Problem Nurses have always stuggled with balancing time between their workloads. Employee sa...