Hospitals in pursuit of excellence

One out of five Americans, or over 40 million people, struggle with behavioral health each day. I...

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

Ten years ago, Mercy began telemedicine in its ICUs to improve patient outcomes. Today the St. Lo...

When outpatients at Summa Health in Akron, Ohio, were frequently getting lost on their way to app...

In accord with their commitment to equity of care and leadership diversity, hospitals and health ...

A population health initiative in Rochester, New York, is bringing together two health care syste...

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

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

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...

Scorecards aren’t just for baseball and boxing. Health care leaders are using scorecards to track...

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

Ascension Health created a business unit called Transformational Development. It is charged with ...

In 2006 the Board of Trustees of Greenville Health System (GHS) committed to develop a workforce ...

The Road to Better Health Spartanburg has proven that working collectively and in partnership wit...

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

Building a culture that is inclusive and founded on principles of diversity was a “key destinatio...

If you build a community of care, people will come. It happened when Middlesex Hospital, in Middl...

Southeastern Health, Lumberton, N.C. 452 beds 16,000 impatient admissions 76,000 emergency d...

A summer internship program growing in Brooklyn is introducing minority high school students to c...

Providing quality care for patients with limited English proficiency can be challenging, even for...

Greenville Health SystemGreenville, South Carolina786 Beds The Problem The diversity of the lead...

A commitment to diversity came first. That was followed by specific action projects to increase d...

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

Geisinger Health SystemDanville, PA545 Beds Geisinger Health System is an integrated health serv...

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

Kaiser PermanenteOakland, CAKaiser Permanente is a health care provider and nonprofit health plan...

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

Focusing on patient education and collaboration with physicians and the hospital, Gundersen Luthe...

Patients hospitalized for tobacco-related illnesses may be the most motivated to quit using tobac...

Kaiser maintains a number of operating units to identify and test innovations. The Center for Tot...

Mayo Clinic has four operating unites to create new tools, processes and businesses. The Division...

Our hospital was an early participant in the Premier Quest Collaborative focused on improving qua...

The goal was set to develop a system-wide infrastructure to support the implementation of evidenc...

Adventist HealthCareRockville, Maryland1,045 Beds The Problem Adventist HealthCare created the C...

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

Barnes-Jewish HospitalSt. Louis, MO1,305 Beds The Problem Barnes-Jewish Hospital created the Cen...

The fall intervention program identified areas needing improvement including a lack of multidisci...

Improving patient flow throughout the Bon Secours Charity Health System is critical to patient sa...

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

Continuum Health Partners'  pay-for performance program (P4P) is designed to partner with physici...

As the new operations manager of Delaware Valley Hospital's primary care centers began her assess...

The goal of this initiative was to improve patient flow, outcomes, and experience, as well as com...

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

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

AtlantiCareAtlantic City, NJ538 Beds The Problem The Special Care Center is a primary care cente...

Aurora Health CareMilwaukee, WI The Problem Aurora Health Care is a nonprofit, integrated delive...

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

Johns Hopkins Health SystemBaltimore, MD912 Beds  The Problem Hopkins ElderPlus is the Programs ...

Carolinas HealthCare System, based in Charlotte, N.C., is partnering with 12 YMCA branches "to cr...