Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

All future performance improvement projects will address health care disparities. That’s the comm...

After recognizing asthma as a major condition for many patients in the emergency department, St. ...

Hospitals are working to achieve all elements of the Triple Aim by redesigning traditional ways o...

Hospitals and health systems are intensifying their focus to ensure all patients receive high-qua...

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

The AHA-McKesson Quest for Quality Prize recognizes leadership and innovation in quality improvem...

MedEx Bedside Prescription Delivery is the very first bedside medication delivery service for hos...

In 2016, Cleveland Clinic was honored by the American Hospital Association (AHA) with its Equity ...

While much work has been done in the hospital setting, patient falls continue to be a problem. As...

In July 2016, the AHA/HRET Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) 2.0 hosted a state hospital associat...

The AHA/HRET Hospital Engagement Network (HEN) 2.0 identifies best practices proven to reduce hos...

Since September 2015, the American Hospital Association (AHA)/Health Research & Educational Trust...

Since 2012, the Aiming for Zero program at Northwell Hospital is continuously working to reduce C...

Northern Westchester Hospital is improving their patients’ experience through the Food Is Care pr...

The St. Joseph’s Hospital Health Center created a Hypoglycemic Task Force to recognize and decrea...

At hospitals and health care systems across the country, executives, clinicians and staff are lea...

  The patient experience is more important today than ever before, with payments tied to patie...

The best way to prevent catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTI) is to limit the use ...

Reducing and eliminating patient harm are at the forefront of patient safety and continue to be a...

According to the 2008 Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/National Center for Health Stati...

The systemwide Obstetrics Care Excellence Team was formed to improve quality of care and reduce c...

This project addresses the health care system's strategic initiative to ensure interdisciplinary ...

The hospital identified an opportunity to improve its discharge planning process to allow more ti...

Bronchiolitis, one of the most costly and frequent medical diagnoses seen at the hospital, is a s...

After reducing health care-acquired deep vein thrombosis (DVT) and pulmonary emboli (PE) in 2011,...

Today more than ever, it is important to focus on reducing unnecessary testing and unneeded emerg...

Restraint documentation was a challenge at the hospital for multiple reasons, including the imple...

In 2008, the health system’s program to contact discharged emergency department (ED) and immediat...

The facility partnered with local emergency medical services (EMS) providers to improve early rec...

Chronic wounds are a growing problem in the United States. Based on evidence-based research of re...

While the implementation of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ venous thromboembolism ...

The hospital identified two process improvement opportunities related to medication safety effort...

Concurrent review of three core measure sets has ensured appropriate and timely patient care. The...

Hospital readmissions for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), heart failu...

This project explains how a multisite, outpatient breast cancer and lymphedema rehabilitation pro...

Staff at this community-based rural hospital in northwest Illinois that treats more than 18,000 e...

The hospital began working on its sepsis initiative in January 2014, after root cause analysis sh...

Advance care planning is a critical element of wellness for all adult patients, regardless of dia...

This project was based on a multidisciplinary approach that focused on the admission process for ...

The goal of this project was to standardize protocols for controlling patient pain following tota...

The goal was to reduce anesthesia's postoperative evaluation errors to less than 10 percent of al...

Venous thromboembolism (VTE), defined as a deep vein thrombosis and/or pulmonary emboli, is linke...

Surgical site infections (SSI) lead to patient suffering, morbidity and mortality, extended lengt...

The 2012 New England Compounding Center tragedy and ongoing drug shortages have caused a dramatic...

Evidence-based practice supports early goal-directed therapy for patients with sepsis. Improving ...

The organization sought to create a root cause analysis (RCA) structure that endowed greater focu...

The goal of this project was to reduce the incidence of contrast-induced neuropathy (CIN) as a re...

The emergency department (ED) was experiencing extended lengths of stay for psychiatric patients,...

Troponin is a cardiac marker for acute myocardial infarction, making this lab test a key part of ...

The organization used Lean Six Sigma process techniques to identify and support improved efficien...