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 ...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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, ...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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

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

Howard University HospitalWashington, DC266 Beds Howard University Hospital is a private, nonpro...

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

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center, a 347-bed public hospital in Bronx, N.Y., has establish...

Lincoln Medical and Mental Health Center strives to provide competent, culturally sensitive, high...

A patient care initiative was created to eliminate catheter-associated urinary tract infections. ...

The rural community of Ellenville, New York (population 4,000), and the New York borough of Brook...

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

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

A Medicare Payment Advisory Commission report to Congress highlighted the financial enormity of t...

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

To reduce the incidence and spread of hospitalacquired infections in two critical operational nod...

Evidence-based practice is an essential requirement of professional health care providers. Rural ...

Coney Island Hospital developed a crisis prevention, early intervention, and response team known ...

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

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...

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 ...

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

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

Clinical IT systems create great opportunities and challenges, especially for rural hospitals. St...

Providing high-quality care to every child has always been the objective at Children's Mercy Hosp...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

A medical staff that is committed to social justice and a vision statement that includes reducing...

Efficient bed placement for patients can mean fewer discharge delays, decreased length of stay an...

Transplant recipients are fragile patients, at high risk for infections and fluid and electrolyte...

Joseph Betancourt, M.D., director of multicultural education for Massachusetts General Hospital i...