Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

There is a critical need to elevate the discussion around workforce planning and development to e...

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

Improving the health of communities where people live, work and play is more important than ever....

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

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

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

A systematic, repeatable approach was developed to monitor pneumonia patients 30 days following d...

According to published research data, the majority of cardiac stent patients have no additional r...

Inconsistencies in the discharge process provide an opportunity to standardize that process, redu...

For its excellent work addressing community health needs, Massachusetts General Hospital in Bosto...

Recognizing the need to build a just culture, the leadership team at Spaulding Rehabilitation Hos...

As the conventional analogy notes, change occurs when an organization finds itself atop a burning...

Nighttime or off-shift intubations are a low-frequency, high-risk procedure in a community hospit...

CDMHC’s innovative programs divert hundreds of patients from the hospitals and emergency departme...

Patients discharged to home waited an average of 3.5 hours to complete all of the necessary steps...

  For more than two decades, health services researchers have been using statewide hospital disc...

The goal of this project was to reduce the amount of global office visits by using Lean Six Sigma...

The project catalyst noted inconsistencies in providing diagnosis-related, evidence-based interve...

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

The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

The goal was to reduce errors in failure to document stop time for IV infusions to zero. Along wi...

The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...

The hospital implemented a new admissions nurse position in March 2014 to address the quality and...

The all-cause, 30-day readmission rates for the hospital are higher than both the state and natio...

The hospital used evidence-based tools and interventions to decrease hospital readmissions by tak...

By focusing on preventive care and health promotion, hospitals are catalyzing change in their com...

This HPOE webinar, held with the Institute for Diversity, highlights Henry Ford Health System, wh...

Diversity has become a core value at U.S. hospitals. Meridian Health, a not-for-profit health car...

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

This guide is a synopsis of a conversation held at the Association for Healthcare Resource & Mate...

This toolkit helps community groups assess and develop action plans to create sustainable, commun...

This brief focuses on updating significant points concerning community health needs assessment an...

This toolkit helps track community partnerships, assess opportunities for increased engagement an...

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

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

Using FOCUS-PDCA, the hospital identified an opportunity to decrease the 30 day readmission rate ...

The Joint Center for Political and Economic Studies and the Texas Health Institute developed a fr...

n 2008, Barnes-Jewish Hospital center for diversity and cultural competence developed an 18-hourc...

Transforming organizations, such as academic health centers or teaching hospitals, toward creatin...

Examples of and the rationale for strategies used to foster critical consciousness in the work of...

Utilizing PDSA, the hospital’s multidisciplinary team utilized evidence based best practices to e...

Good Samaritan Regional Health Center’s medical unit required four hours, 18 minutes to discharge...

Emory HealthcareAtlanta, GA Emory Healthcare, a large academic teaching system, deployed a patie...

The move from volume- to value-based care has profound implications for those who design, build a...

One successful initiative can lead to another. A “nurse transitionist” program at Western Marylan...

A key objective of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's new reimbursement and payment...

Palliative care specializes in taking care of patients with serious illness and focuses on provid...

At hospital shift changes, doctors and nurses exchange crucial information about the patients the...

For the  last 15 years, public hospitals have pursued multiple strategies to help maintain financ...

Health care reform presents academic health centers with an opportunity to test new systems of ca...