Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

Community health initiatives that start with small successes can lead to bigger changes. St. Cath...

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

A health care collaboration in rural Missouri is expanding patient access to primary and behavior...

“Every staff member counts” and “every patient counts.” With this mantra, AllianceHealth Pryor in...

An intervention to prevent childhood obesity has blossomed into a communitywide effort led by a l...

St. Joseph Health, Queen of the Valley Medical Center, a 208-bed hospital in Napa, California, is...

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

Education that increases awareness is one of the best ways to transform health outcomes. But, as ...

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...

Diversity is becoming a key word in health care. Hospitals and health care systems are focusing o...

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

This webpage will take to you the complete listing of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement's ...

After learning of the "90 minute" standard of care for providing definitive treatment for cardiac...

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

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

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...

Based on the consultant’s recommendations, Lee Memorial’s (Fort Myers, Fla.) senior management de...

Project Brotherhood is dedicated to helping Greater New Haven-area men make the healthy lifestyle...

The heart failure program began in 1995. The hospital developed a multidisciplinary heart failure...

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

Change can be uncomfortable. But no matter how sophisticated, hospitals and health care systems n...

Norwegian American Hospital, Chicago, improved both influenza and pneumococcal vaccination rates ...

Engaging patients and families in health care can help hospitals achieve the Triple Aim: better c...

Care for people with multiple chronic health conditions is often fragmented, resulting in increas...

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

During 2011, the hospital joined the IHA Project Re-Engineering Discharge (RED) collaborative to ...

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

Hospitals and health care systems can support their missions and also many additional benefits by...

Every October pink appears on everything from ribbons to football helmets and even illuminates th...

Teamwork between infection control and environmental services professionals at Hunterdon Medical ...

October 6 – 12 is Mental Health Awareness Week. According to estimates, in the United States each...

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

St. Vincent’s Medical Center, Bridgeport, Conn. 396 licensed beds Full-service teaching hospi...

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

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

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

June 2–8 is Community Health Improvement Week. The Association for Community Health Improvement s...

In 2008, Ellis Hospital launched a medical home at its Ellis Health Center campus. This initiativ...

Improving discharge can reap multiple benefits for patients and providers, including reducing rea...

According to Leapfrog survey results, the hospital’s rate of elective deliveries prior to 39 week...

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...

Following a high rate of central line-associated blood stream infections in the fourth quarter of...

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

From flexible visiting hours to family-centered rounds, hospitals are encouraging patients and fa...

Bellin Health SystemGreen Bay, WI Bellin Health System is a nonprofit integrated health care del...

Cambridge Health AllianceCambridge, MA229 Beds Cambridge Health Alliance is an integrated health...

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