Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

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

Focusing on value-based payment structures has helped Mount Auburn Hospital design care delivery ...

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

This year's winners of Health Care's Most Wired Survey are employing information technology to he...

This paper illustrates ONC’s 10-year vision for advancing health IT capabilities in a manner that...

Using a sequential rapid cycle improvement process to implement evidence-based practices for cent...

Making incremental changes and collaborating with area hospitals and community organizations have...

Small tests of change can give hospitals momentum and show early progress in improvement projects...

Whether cheering for soccer, tennis, baseball, softball or another sport, fans no doubt have witn...

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

Holy Cross Hospital could be characterized as an emergency department with critical care units. T...

Griffin HospitalDerby, CT160 Beds Griffin Hospital is the flagship hospital for Planetree, Inc.,...

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

The vascular access team at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta embraced a multidisciplinary approac...

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

In 2008, Albany Medical Center was one of 18 regional referral neonatal intensive care units to a...

Aurelia Osborn Fox Memorial Hospital's quality management team, led by the outcomes manager, part...

Beth Israel Medical Center implemented a multifaceted intervention to interrupt transmission and ...

Over the past eight years, an interdisciplinary team at Burke Rehabilitation Hospital prioritized...

A temporary reduction in pharmacy hours at Clifton Springs Hospital and Clinic contributed to med...

Appropriate treatment for pressure ulcers requires accurate initial evaluation and the ability to...

Ellis Medicine started this project in April 2010 to reduce readmissions, as readmissions are cli...

Motivated by two years of high central line associated blood stream infection rates in the intens...

Catheter-associated urinary tract infection remains the most common health care-acquired infectio...

Good Samaritan Hospital's Clinical Transformation Team guided the formation of a Ventilator-Assoc...

An unprecedented cluster of infant falls from post-cesarean section mothers' arms sparked the mat...

Highland Hospital established its Rapid Response Team in late 2006 to provide a quick, multidisci...

The Jacobi Medical Center Department of Radiology analyzed the 15.3 percent rise in annual comput...

Ventilator-associated pneumonia and central line-associated infections data for the third quarter...

Timely notification of critical laboratory values ensures prompt clinical intervention for potent...

Missed or delayed cancer diagnoses are a frequent cause of patient harm and malpractice lawsuits ...

The advent of computerized tomography (CT) has revolutionized diagnostic radiology. The use of CT...

In the fourth quarter of 2009, Lutheran Medical Center conducted a pilot study on three medical/s...

Since The Joint Commission implemented the National Patient Safety Goal, "Reduction of the Likeli...

Flash sterilization the rapid sterilization of items using steam occurs in many operating rooms i...

Barnes-Jewish Hospital, St. Louis, wanted to transform its organization and in turn, transformed ...

The Problem According to the CDC, 248,000 bloodstream infections occur in U.S. hospitals each ye...

At any one time, more than 100 patients are in this busy and complex ED. Historically, staff acti...

The Problem Pneumonia accounts for 15 percent of all hospital-associated infections. It is the s...

The Problem Advocate Christ Medical Center's space in the admittance bay area and resource usage...

The Problem A new 192-room patient bed tower was constructed and designed with a new decentraliz...

The Problem In a 2008 medical staff satisfaction survey, 93 percent of Advocate Good Shepherd ph...

The Problem When the performance improvement team began to take stock of the situation in Advoca...

The ProblemAlthough Fairfield Medical Center had a fairly low rate of pressure ulcers, officials ...

The Problem Good Samaritan's LWBS rate (2.1 percent) is close to the national average (2.0 perce...

The Problem Hazleton General Hospital officials were unhappy with their performance on a number ...

The Problem Hazleton General Hospital is committed to providing compassionate, patient-centered,...

Health care acquired infections in U.S. hospitals account for 1.7 million infections and 99,000 a...

Th e P roblemUrinary tract infections are the most common hospital-acquired infection with 80 per...

The Problem While all facitilites aspire to limit the incidence of ventilator-associated pneumon...